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FEBRUARY 1988, Volume 9. Number 2

FEATURES 74

SOFTWARE "FAN"ATICS 70 COVER STORY

From the software companies themselves, read about some of
their favorite fans and about some software enthusiasts who have 101 TIPS FOR COMMODORE GAME PLAYERS 66
gone just a little over-board. A round-up of hints from Aliens to Zork. If you need just one more
by John Jermaine life to complete your favorite arcade game, or just one more clue to
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Compiled by Louis F. Sander

MAILORDER MANIA 74
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COVER PHOTO: Charles Bartholomew
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Software: We Ar Kung-Fu by Konami
by Gary V. Fields

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LETTERS 4 TECHNICALTIPS
nterfacing Commodore's User Port. Part 6
NEWS 8 Commodore 128 Program Listings by John lovme 56

TIPS & TRICKS TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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COMMODORE MA3AZINE 3
LETTERS
Tb the Editor
on the backside near the serial port, but in
my mind I knew the inside was destroyed.
Commodore
A G A Z I N
In your November issue, you directed a When it came time to power up the drive
letter inquiry of John Robertson of Orlan we crossed our fingers.. . and got no
do. Florida to an inexpensive but not nee- . light.. .nothing.. .it was dead.
Publisher
essarily the best howling secretarial pack I began to dissemble the drive expect
Julie Bauer
age for leagues. You listed the vendor as if ing to find a million little pieces inside.
Assistant to the Publisher
it were the only one or the best one for the When 1 opened it up I found the connector
Amanda K. Wappes
price. that goes from the power cord to the drive
We have been publishing bowling soft had disconnected, so I reconnected it and
ware since 1980 for the PET. Commodore put it all back together. I hooked it back Managing Editor
64, and now for the Commodore 128 (in up to the computer and powered every Jim Gracely
native mode). The products are kept up to thing up. It all seemed to work fine, so I
Assistant Editor
date with the latest twists in scorekeeping tried loading a program. It worked!!! It has Susan R. West
and our package in its numerous editions been working great ever since that day.
Assistant Technical Editor
is in use worldwide. If anybody asks me how I like Commo
Mike Rivers
The key is to compare features front) the dore's disk drive I'll tell them it passed the
vendors before you buy. Some packages Drop Check Drive Test.
are limited to a few teams or few bowlers Sincerely,
Art Director
or to single gender leagues. With League- Troy Franklin
Gwenn Knapp
Bowl, we can handle 48 teams and up to Great Lakes, III
Assistant Art Director
420 bowlers on a 64 and 480 bowlers on a GLCC Member
Wilson Harp
PC-10. Our specialty is match points and
Production Manager
fully calculating logic. The user types in a To the Editor:
Jo-Ellen Temple
schedule and the games bowled. I read with interest the article "Giving
LeagueBowl does the rest. Your Computer a Home" in the August is
Sincerely, sue. Having purchased a Commodore 64 Circulation
Harry Briley for my 70th birthday I thought you would Kenneth F. Battista
Owner. Briley Software be interested in how I made maximum
Advertising Coordinator
use of minimum space. You see I live in a Rebecca Cotton
PS. We also distribute software for volley mobile home and am limited for space.
ball... Tb maximize my space I mounted the com
puter on the set of hide-away brackets Advertising Representatives
that were designed to hide mixers, etc.
Editorial Response: We apologize for ex SOUTHEAST, SOUTHWEST ANDWESTCOAST
under a kitchen counter. When not in use
cluding you from our answer. In fact, we Warren Langer, Spencer 0. Smith
the computer unlatches and swings down
searched high and low for any bowling Warren Langer Associates
under the desk top. I hope you find this of
league secretory. For more information, 9320 NW 2nd Street
interest for those with limited space. In
write to: Briley Software, P.O. Bax 2913, Coral Springs, FL 33071
the beginning I was so doubtful that I ac Advertising Inquiries Only
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tually drew the entire project up in scale to 305/753-4124
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see if everything would fit before I spent
MIDWEST, NORTHEAST AND CANADA
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Pamela Stockham
Tb the Editor: top is a shelf that holds a ream of paper—
700 River Road
In August '87, my best friend and I were talk about not wasting space.
Fair Haven, NJ 07704
asked to represent our computer club I hope you find this of interest, especial
201/741-5784
(Great Lakes Commodore Club) at an Air/ ly for people with limited space to use. I
Expo in the local area. have been dropping a lot of hints, hoping
We started to set up our booth about 9 someone subscribes to Commodore Maga
a.m. We loaded all our computer gear on a zine for me.
cart, all our software and our hardware, Sincerely, Commodore Magazine. Volume 9, Number 2. February
1988.
with my Commodore 1571 disk drive on Leslie E. Veil Commodore Magazine is published monthly by Commo
top, without the box it came in, just sitting Morrisville, PA dore Magazine inc.. 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA
going for the ride. I realize that this was 19380. U.S.A. U.S. subscriber rate is $35.40 per year;
Canadian subscriber rate is $45.40 per year; Overseas sub
not a very smart thing to do, but at the scriber rate is $65.00 per year. Questions concerning sub
time we just wanted to set up because we scription should be directed to Commodcre Magazine Sub
were running late. The disk drive was ap scription Department, Box 65!, Holmes, Pennsylvania
19043. Phone (800) 345-8112. In Pennsylvania (800)
proximately three feet above the ground. 662-2444. Copyright E 1987 by Commodore Magazine Inc.
We had to take the cart over some grades All rights reserved.
CBM, PET. VIC 20. and Commodore 64 are registered
on the ground. We slowed down, but it was
trademarks of Commodore Electronics Ltd. Super PET and
too late, and the drive crashed into the ce Commodore 128 are trademarks of Commodore Electronics
ment with a thud. At the same time my Ltd. Amiga*1 is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga.
ABC Membership applied for.
heart stopped with a thud.
The only external damage was a chip

4 FEBRUARY 1988
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Mission Graphics President Elect Contest

Suppoi Utrategic Simulations, Inc. is sponsoring a contest for users of
President Elect —1988 Edition. The contest is open to any U.S.
resident of any age. Players whose Democratic and Republican
candidates are the same as those on Election Day, November 8,1988,
and whose electoral vote count comes closest to matching the actual
election results will win a cash prize. Contest rules may be obtained
by writing to "President Elect Contest," Strategic Simulations, Inc.,
1046 N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043.

C-ZAR
JJiemer Development has introduced C-ZAJt. an Amiga Editor and
Librarian for the Casio CZ-101 and CZ-1000 keyboards. Over 200
instruments and sound effects can be played or modified. C-ZAE
enables the user to fine tune the Casio's six powerful eight-step
. he Commodore Amiga 2000 recently assumed a staring role at the
envelopes. The program retails for $195. An Amiga-to-MIDI
opening of Mission Graphics Support, the world's first computer art
interface is also available for $55. For details contact: Diemer
gallery. Located in New York City's East Village, Mission Graphics
Development, 12814 Landale St., Studio City, CA 91604-1351. Phone:
Support showcases twelve vibrant Amiga-generated collages by New
(818)762-0804.
York artist Sandra Filippucci. Filippucci used Electronic Arts'
DeluxePaint II and NewTek's Digi-View to compose the collages
and a color laser printer to produce hard copy.

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8 FEBRUARY 1988
 Speed in
Spades.
Throttle—wide open.
Joystick—back bard.
Air it out, man.
GeeBee Air Rally. Air racing
action that puts the wi/db&ck
in the wild blue yonder. Speed
in spades. One tricky turn after
another. And a lot of nasty
competition between you and
the finish line.
Buzz 'em. Bump 'em. Blow
'em away.
Show 'em who owns the skies.

16 unique courses, 4 spe Bail out from a midair

cial events, 256 levels of mishap, andyou never
difficulty. know where you'll end up.

GeeBee Air Rally.

$29-95 suggested retail price
for Commodore 64/1287*
$39.95 suggested retail price
for Amiga™ computers.

ACTIVISION,
Ask your software retailer
or order direct: just call
800/345-2888, operator 300.

© Aciivision, Inc. Amiga screens shown. Screens

may v*ry depending on compurci system. Amiga and
Commodore 64 and 128 are trademarks of Commodore
Electronic*. Lid.
NEWS • NEWS • NEWS • NEWS • NEWS • NEWS • NEWS • NEWS
Maxx-Out! Microfiche Filer Updates Airborne
Series S oftware Visions, Inc. has released the Microfiche Filer Text Ranger and
Import Utility into the public domain. The utility disk, available on
ill pyx, Inc. has released three Fred Fish Disk #103, on PeopleLink, Q-Link and BIXr allows the
Project
titles in the company's new
Maxx-Out! series of
importing of fixed format text files into Microfiche Filer databases.
In addition, a Microfiche Filer Version 1.02 update is available for
Stealth
entertainment software for
younger gamers. Had Warriors
S9 directly from Software Visions. The update provides full support
for European characters. Software Visions is also asking
Fighter
transports the player to 2500 Microfiche Filer users to submit useful databases to Include on
AD. where he must save the subsequent updates. Published database donors will be credited by IVJLicroProse Software, Inc. has
human race from invaders from name on the disk and will receive the next update free. For more released two new games for the
another world. In Arctic Antics: information contact: Software Visions, Inc., 26 Forest Rd., Commodore 64. Airborne
Spy Vs. Spy the player must Framingham, MA 01701. Or call: (617) 877-1266. Ranger Is the first MicroProse
escape from an iceberg before a program in which the player

deadly blizzard or an enemy spy controls the movements of an

catches up to him. Boulder Dash
Construction Kit is a race to
Amiga Assembly individual soldier instead of an
aircraft or submarine. The
mine diamonds through a series Language simulation begins with a
joystick-controlled parachute
of caves. Players have the option
to play the game provided or drop, followed by 12 different
1AB Books, Inc. has released Amiga Assembly Language search and destroy, rescue,
design their own games using the
Programming by Jake Commander. The 240-page book provides an
construction kit. Suggested retail infiltration and sabotage
uverview ui assemblj language, including binary arithmetic and the
price is $24.95. For details missions in three different
syntax, addresses and effects of assembly commands. The hardbound
contact: Epyx, Inc., 600 geographic regions. The program
version sells for S19.95, the paperback version for $13.60. For retails for S34.95.
Galveston Dr., Redwood City, CA
further information contact: TAB Books, Inc., P.O. Box 40, Blue Ridge
94063. Phone: (415) 366-0606. Project: Stealth Fighter
Summit, PA 17214. Phone: (717) 794-2191.
simulates the radar-elusive jet
fighter believed to be part of the
US. Air Force arsenal. The
Sons of Thunder Mountain program features an advanced
cockpit with two display screens
Liberty and Classics a radar scope and 3D out-the-
window view. Project: Stealth
Panzer M,.indscape's Thunder Mountain Division has released five classic Fighter retails for S39.95. For
more information on both
Strike ties at bargain prices for the Commodore 64. They are: Pac Man,
Ms. Pac Man, Dig Dug, Pole Position and Galaxian. Each retails
products contact: MicroProse
Software, Inc., 120 Lakefront Dr.,
S trategic Simulations. Inc. has for S9.95. for further information contact: Thunder Mountain
Division. Mindscape. Inc.. 3444 Dundee Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062. Or
Hunt Valley, MD 21030. Phone:
released two new programs for (301)771-1151.
call: (612)452-4730.
the Commodore 64. Sons of
Liberty simulates three battles
of the American Revolution:
Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and 4th & Inches Border
Monmouth. Suggested retail price
is $34.95. xolade's latest release is 4th & Inches, a football simulation Zone
Panzer Strike! is a World War that incorporates 22 players, a full-width and length field, 20 plays
II simulation in which one or two and 11 formations. Available for the Commodore 64.4th fi1 Inches I nfocom has released Border
players engage in individual retails for S29.95. For details contact: Accolade, 20813 Stevens Creek Zone,awork of interactive fiction
squad/tank level combat on the Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014. Or call: (408) 446-5757. with an espionage theme by Marc
Eastern and North African fronts Blank. Woven around an
as well as combat involving the assassination plot the game
British Army throughout Europe. consists of three chapters. In
Panzer Strike! retails for each chapter you assume a
$44.95. different identity from an
For more information contact: American businessman to a KGB
Strategic Simulations, Inc., 1046 agent. Border Zone provides
N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain Invisi-Clues that reveal as much
View, CA 94043. Or call: (415) help as you want. The program is
964-1353. Continued on pg. 12

10 HEBRUARY1988
 FEEL LIKE
CHALLENGING
A 3-TIME
ORLD
PION?"

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GET TO THE HOT PAVEMENT OF THE DRAGSTRIP V

Shirley Muldowney helped design this authentic fuel, shift just rightUy the time you pop your chute, y
3-D professional drag-racing simulation. Based on her know if you've beaten the champ in one of her winning
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captures all the thrills and excitement of NHRA Don't red-light, smoke your tires, or blow; your engine.
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How can a 6-second event hold your interest? Well, Put yourself in the driver's
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in the showdown!
Choose your lane,

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Continued from page 10

available for the Commodore 64 Perfect

for S34.95. For details contact:
Infocom, Inc., 125 Vision
CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge,
MA 02140. Phone: (617) 492- DunRize Industries is
6000. introducing Perfect Vision, a real
time video digitizer for the
Commodore Amiga. The product
SourceView allows you to transfer a video
image from VCR, camcorder or
Math video camera into your Amiga.
Perfect Vision will capture an
Programs image in 16 gray scales in 1/60 of
a second. Color images can be
DourceView has released two captured from a color camera or
new educational programs for a black and white camera using
the supplied color wheel.
the Commodore 64. Addition
Tutor allows students to receive
Skate Suggested retail price is $219.95.
step-by-step help on addition
problems, and Math Pop Quiz
or Die For more information contact:
SunRize Industries, 3801 Old

E lectronic Arts has released Skate or Die a

teaches addition, subtraction, College Rd., Bryan, TX 77801. Or
multiplication and division to call: (409) 846-1311.
skateboarding simulation and competition. Players can participate
students at various levels of
in five different events, three of which are modeled after real
ability. Both programs

Superstar
skateboarding competition in which as many as eight people can
incorporate color graphics and
compete. Skate or Die is available for S29.95. For further
sound to enliven math practice.
Each retails for 819.95. For more
information contact: Electronic Arts, 1820 Gateway Dr., San Mateo,
CA 94404. Or call: (415) 571-7171.
Soccer
information contact: SourceView
Corporation, 835 Castro St.,
Martinez. CA 94553. Or call:
M. .indscape, Inc. has released
Superstar Soccer, the latest
(415)228-6220.
sports simulation for the
Commodore 64 from their
SportTime line. Using the same
Galactic techniques as their popular
Superstar Ice Hockey, you can
Frontier elect to play, coach or manage
your soccer team. One or two
F ree Spirit Software. Inc. has players can compete against each
released Galactic Frontier, a other or challenge a computer
space exploration game for the opponent. Superstar Soccer
Commodore 64. In Galactic retails for $34.95. For further
Frontier, the user searches for information contact: Mindscape,
life forms among the 200 billion Inc., 3444 Dundee Rd,
stars in our galaxy. Stars, planets Northbrook, IL 60062. Phone:
and moons are represented in (312) 480-7667.
realistic graphics, and all data
about each star are accurate
according to current scientific
SupraDrive FD-10
knowledge and theory. The
program is available for $29.95 Oupra Corporation has announced the release of their SupraDrive
from: Free Spirit Software, Inc., FD-10. a 10MB removable floppy disk drive for the Commodore
905W.Hillgrove,Suite6,La Amiga. The SupraDrive FD-10 combines features of both floppy and
Grange, IL 60525. Phone: (312) hard disk drives. Each removable 5.25-inch diskette can hold a full
352-7323. 10MB of data, which can be accessed at speeds approaching hard
disk drives. The unit retails for S1095. For details contact: Supra
Corporation. 1133 Commercial Way, Albany, OR 97321. Phone:
(503) 967-9075.

12 FEBRUARY 1988
 1987- Expanding Scenery disk
coverage: East Coast, Japan,
& Europe

1986 - Flight Simulator tl for the 68000

computers

1985- High-performance Jet flight

simulator for the IBM,
Commodore 64, and Apple II
computers

1982/1983 - Microsoft Flight Simulator

& Flight Simulator II

FUftCbutf hcMkc vtirhti.

Oil. r alt O!(. I 3M [kfL 9

1979 - 3D graphics applied to the

original FS1 Flight Simulator for
the new Apple II and TRS-80
computers

1977- SubLOGIC's 3D graphics

package in BASIC and M6800
Assembly Language

•TJ -1 *TW1 r«TA I W

Some say our technology has helped us define the state of the art in flight simulation. We believe our ten years of dedication
have gotten us where we are today.

SubLOGIC's first black & white 3D graphics routines, developed in 1977, paved the way for our introduction to flight simula
tion and aerial combat gaming theory. Our second-generation Flight Simulator II was so well conceived that even we find it
difficult to improve upon. Jet's spectacular land and sea battle scenarios set another classic milestone in state-of-the-art
simulation gaming. Scenery concepts incorporated into SubLOGlC flight simulation products right from the start continue to
evolve as we introduce new, more beautifully detailed areas of the world to explore. And coming in 1988 - a flight control yoke
for even more realism!

We invite you to help us celebrate our first decade of success, and share in our anticipation of the next ten years to come.
SubLOGlC tenth-anniversary promotional shirts and posters are available at your dealer or directly from SubLOGlC. See your
dealer, or write or call us for more information.

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YOU MUST BE DOING
No Brag, Just Fact! Over 1,800,000 programs sold to date—and each
program includes:
• Free Customer Technical Support (For all registered users)
» A Money Back Guarantee (If you can find a better program, we'll buy it for you)**
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PARTNER 64,
Word Writer 3 has more fea A cartridge-based product
tures, more power, and is with eight instantly accessi
easier-to-use than any other PARTNER ble, memory-resident desktop
C64 word processor!
64 accessories.
Features: Accessories include:
•An 85,000-Word Spell Appointment Calendar
Checker—plus, unlimited & Date Book
sub-dictionaries. Name, Address, and
• An Integrated Thesaurus Phone List
with over 60,000 synonyms Auto Dialer Memo Pad
and alternatives. Label Maker & Envelope
C64-S49.95
C128-S69.95 •An Integrated Outline Addresser
Processor that quickly C64 - S49.95
* Calculator Typewriter
organizes notes, facts, and ideas into a convenient out C128-$49.95
Screen Print
line format.
• An 80-Column Print Preview Mode Other features include:

• Highlighting: Prints out your text incorporating under <■ SwiftDos: Allows you to access Commodore disk drive
lining, boldface, italic, superscript, subscript, and more. commands any time.
• Headers and Footers * SwiftLock: Enter your secret code before you leave your
computer. The keyboard will be locked until you re-enter
• Automatic Program Set-Up: Configures WORD
the code.
WRITER 3 to your choice of printer codes, screen colors,
and more. ■ Extended Printer Control: Enables you to send com
mands directly to your printer at any time.
• SwiftKeys* access commands quickly, using a minimum
of keystrokes. i SwiftLoad: Allows your Commodore 1541 disk drive to
WORD WRITER 3, load as fast as the 1571 disk drive.
• Compatible with GEOS* DATA MANAGER 2, and
SWIFTCALC INTERFACE
TOGETHER FOR A COM
PLETE PRODUCTIVITY
The Critic's Choice SYSTEM! Data Manager 2
A highly flexible filing and
recordkeeping system that
act from R^jyi stores, retrieves, sorts, eval
uates, and updates large
amounts of information.
.SW,FTCALC is an Features:
outstanding price. A Report Writer: Gen
erates customized data
•■Using WORD WRITER is an
reports. You specify the title,
location, and sequence of
each column.
C64-S39.95
C128-S69.95 A Label Maker: Prints
your name and address file
onto standard mailing labels, and transfers and prints
text information onto labels and tags.
Quick Access to important information: Retrieves
and prints items by name, date range, index code-or
any category stored in the system.
Calculates numerical data from column to col
"Reg. trademarks ol Commodore Electronics. Ltd. umn and field to field: Allows you to perform spread
Berkeley Software, Inc., Timeworks. Inc. sheet tasks such as payroll calculations, cost estimates.
c 1982 Timeworks. Inc. All Rights Reserved. Compatible with GEOS
1,800,007 PROGRAMS,
SOMETHING RIGHT.
Timeworks Desktop
SYIVIA PORTERS PUBLISHER,,
Personal Financial Where you once needed
a typesetter, designer, and
Planner. paste-up artist, you can do
All the computer tools you'll it all yourself with THE
need to manage your money TIMEWORKS DESKTOP
on a day-to-day basis, and NEW PUBLISHER. Includes every
plan your financial future, thing you need to produce
too! professional-quality printed
For Your Day-to-Day documents on your C64
$49.95 computer
Affairs:
• Maintains your elec Features:
C64-S49.95
tronic checkbook and • Automatic Page Style Formatting: Set up a page
C128-S69.95
credit card transactions. style only once. The computer follows it automatically,
• Writes your checks and balances your checkbook. inserting rules, headers, and footers.
• Prepares and monitors your budget • A Full-Featured Word Processor
■ Classifies and tracks your taxable income and • A Wide Variety of Font Styles in Multiple Sizes
expenses • A Built-in Text Editor that allows you to write head
• Calculates your net worth and generates cus lines, taglines, and captions to fit any space.
tomized personal financial statements • High Resolution Graphics: Imports illustrations and
•Tracks your financial assets-and your insurance graphics from leading
policies. graphic programs.
For Your Financial Future: • Automatic Kerning:
Leads you step-by-step through a series of questions Opens or tightens word
regarding your financial goals, and your current financial and letter spacing for a
condition. Your answers will enable your computer to truly professional look.
determine and print a summary of the amounts you must • A Wide Selection
save each year to meet your financial objectives-in both of Built-in Patterns,
real and inflated dollars. Textures, and Shades
• A Complete Set of
Built-in Drawing Tools:
SwiftCalc Draw lines, boxes, circles,
A powerful, easy-to-use elec
and polygons automatically
—or, draw free hand.
tronic spreadsheet designed
for home and business use. • Use THE TIMEWORKS
DESKTOP PUBLISHER
Features:
to produce: Newsletters,
Sideways: Prints all your
Brochures, Flyers, Forms,
columns on one, continu
Reports. Bulletins. Menus,
ous sheet .. sideways.
Certificates, Letterheads,
250 rows and 104 col Newspapers-the pos
umns provide more than sibilities are endless!
25.000 cells (locations) in
which to place information. Available at your favorite dealer, or contact Timeworks today.
C64-S39.95
Performs mathematical To Order Call: 1-312-948-9202
C128-S69.95
functions, up to 12 digits. For Update Information Call: 1-312-948-9206
Allows the use of minimum and maximum values, aver
ages, sums, integers, absolute values, and exponential
notation.
Performs financial analysis functions, calculates
the present and future value of a dollar and the present
and future value of a constant amount (annuity). MORE POWER FOR YOUR DOLLAR
SwiftLoad: Allows your 1541 Disk Drive to load up to 5
Timeworks, Inc. 444 Lake Cook Road,
times faster.
Deerfield, Illinois 60015 312-948-9200
Produces "What If?" Reports: Applies mathematical
functions and algebraic formulas to any spread sheet-type "Details on every Timeworks package.
analysis, such as budgeting, financial planning, or cost
estimating. Calculates these formulas and produces
complicated "What If?" Reports at the press of a key.
 Compiled by Louis F, Sander
■

Once again this month, readers from several continents have :GOTO 40
blessed us by sharing the finest fruits of their fertile minds. 90 DATA 19,40,16,17,22,16,13,130,25,
Among this outstanding group are two delightful amusements 131,10,41,28,40,15,7,17,192,7,108,
and a wonderful series ofprogram protection tips. As always, 6,30,8
there's something here for every interest and for every level of 100 DATA 240,4,68,9,97,11,12,12,128,
human expertise. 14,2,1,131,0,3,2,128,18,56,20,56,
Ifyou d like to share your own expert knowledge, just write it 21,64,23
up and send it in. Put each item on a separate sheet ofpaper, put 110 DATA 4,24,129,26,2,27,6,29,192,31,
everything in one envelope, then send it to: 68,34,68,30,8,32,32,37,198,33,16,
35,16
Louis F. Sander
120 DATA 40,130,36,16,38,16,43,130
Post Office Box 101011
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
If we select your idea for publication, your name and idea will be
circulated around the world. We'll also send you a check. Fuzzy Caterpillar: This program creates a most unusual
"worm" on the 64-mode screen. Tb see him and control him, you
Fireworks Extravaganza; Many readers were impressed with must plug a joystick into Port 2. Note that all eight sprites are
the fireworks program by Bob and David Snader in January's used to create one long, changing object. The program uses some
"Tips & TYicks." I recently met the Snaders in person, and we interesting and unusual code to control the sprites and to do bor
discussed the possibilities of doing something more with the fire der checking.
works theme. They took the challenge and produced one of their Scott Glazer
usual gems. So here's the "grand finale," courtesy of: Reno, NV
Bob & David Snader
Baltimore, MD 10 PRINT"[CLEAR,RVS,SPACE4]
SCOTT GLAZER'S FUZZY CATERPILLAR
10 PRINT"[CLEAR,L. RED,DOWN2] [SPACE4]"
FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA-BOB & DAVE 20 IF PEEK(65534)<>72 THEN PRINT"
SNADER":POKE 53280,0 [DOWN]THIS ONLY WORKS IN 64 MODE!"
20 DIM L(39),P(39),A(16),B(16),C(16) :END
:V=53248:S=54296:POKE V+33,0 30 PRINT,,,"[D0WN6] IT WILL",,,,
:POKE V+21,255 " OBEY A",,,," JOYSTICK",,,,
30 D=12288:FOR T=0 TO 38:READ Q,R " IN PORT 2"
:L(T)=Q:P(T)=R:NEXT:FOR T=D TO 40 V=53248:FOR T=0 TO 7:POKE T+2040,13
D+510:POKE Tf0:NEXT :POKE V+39+T,7:NEXT:R=V+21:X=104
40 FOR T=0 TO 15:A(T)=(RND(0)*8)+l :Y=104
:B{T)=RND(0)*255:C(T)=(RND(0)*150) 50 FOR T=832 TO 894:READ A:POKE T,A
+50:NEXT :NEXT
50 FOR T=0 TO 7:POKE 2040+T,192+T 60 J=PEEK(56320):Y=Y+6*(((J AND
:POKE V+39+T,A(T):NEXT 1)=0}AND Y>55)-6*(((J AND 2)=0)AND
:POKE 7+23,6(1):POKE V+29,B(1) Y<225)
60 FOR T=0 TO 15:POKE V+T,C(T):NEXT 70 X=X+8*(((J AND 4)=0)AND
:FOR B=D TO D+510 STEP 64:POKE S,15 X>31)-8*(((J AND 8)=0)AND X<248)
:POKE S,0 80 P=-P*(P<7)-(P<7):POKE R,255-2~P
70 FOR E=0 TO RND(0)*2:FOR T=0 TO 38 :POKE V+2*P,X:POKE V+2*P+1,Y
:POKE B+L(T) ,P (T) :NEXT:NEXT:NEXT :POKE R,255:GOTO 60
:FOR T=0 TO 200:NEXT
81 DATA 001,255,128,015,255,240,031,
80 FOR T=0 TO 38:FOR B=D TO D+510 255
STEP 64:POKE B+L(T),0:NEXT:NEXT
Continued on pg. 108

16 FEBRUARY 1988
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 Compiled by Tim Jones

Each month in Amiga Tips and Dicks we offer a series of (id- data disk. Don't boot your system from the DeluxePaint disk. In
bits, teasers, and short programming examples. Ifyou have stead, boot from your Workbench and use the CLI to enter the
an item that you would like to submit for use, you can send it to: following command:
ASSIGN DF1: RAM:
Commodore Amiga Tips Now, place your DeluxePaint Key Disk into DFO: and go into the
651 Outrigger Dr. program from the CLI or from the Workbench. Now. whenever
Deltona, FL 32738 DPaint tries to access DF1: during a LOAD or SAVE, you won't
get the SYSTEM REQUESTER asking you to insert volume
If we use your hint, tip or short program example, we will pay DF1 and you can switch the LOAD/SAVE path to your actual
you between $10 and S50. data disk.
Jorge Dimitrius
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Faery Tale Adventure Tips: Be sure that you explore every
building in Tambry before leaving to explore your new world. [You could also assign DF1: to DFO:. Note that this won't work if
There are many items hidden away that may help you. DFl: is already attacJwd to your system — taj j
There are two ways to get treasure and items from a foe: de
feat it in battle or immobolize it. ANSI Codes For Use In CLI Displays: As many of you are
Never underestimate the power of being generous with ped aware, the CLI windows are based on what is called the Console
dlers and others while roaming the land. By taking the time to Device. Also, this Console Device adheres to standards of dis
TALK, or give gifts, you could find your lot improving. play set forth by the American National Standards Institute
If you are having problems increasing your BRAVERY, take (ANSI). These are referred to as ANSI Standards. Here is a list
advantage of your "LONGER REACH'' and use the graveyard of some of the codes that can be sent to the Console Device driv
fence as a deFENSE during the early stages of the game. It er (via standard Type and Echo commands). In most cases, the
seems that the bad guys (with the exception of wraiths) don't commands arc prefaced by a Command Sequence Identifier
know that they can fight back through the fence. (CSI). This is usually an Escape character followed by an open
There are three ways to travel over water. One is to locate a bracket "[". If you wish to imbed any of these codes into a line of
raft and use it to navigate the waters of the Lake of Dreams. text, or text file, you will have to use an editor other than ED.
The second is to locate the seashell and call the Sea Turtle and MicroEMACS (on the EXTRAS disk) is good for this.
the third is to gain possession of the Golden Lasso and locate the
Magic Swan. <CSI> = ESC "I" (the quotes indicate a literal character)
When using the Great Stone Rings, you can control your des
tination somewhat depending on the direction you face when <CSI>0m Reset All ANSI Parameters to Default
you invoke its magic. <CSI>lm Set BOLD
When facing the magical lady in her throne room, keep in <CSI>3m Set ITALICS
mind that discussion may increase your chances of survival. <CSI>4m Set UNDERLINE
When you have defeated a wraith, be sure to search the re <CSI>7m Swap Foreground and Background
mains. There is a chance that one of them may have an item <CSI>30m Set Foreground to Color 0
that may be of use in your quest. <CSI>31m Set Foreground to Color 1
During the early stages of the game, it is best not to disable <CSI>32m Set Foreground to Color 2
the musical themes. If your character faces danger, the change <CSI>33m Set Foreground to Color 3
in the musical mood will give you enough advanced warning to <CSI>40m Set Background to Color 0
allow you to prepare. <CSI>41m Set Background to Color 1
Graham Kinsey/Tim Jones <CSI>42m Set Background to Color 2
Boston, MA Deltona, FL <CSI>43m Set Background to Color 3
This is a very limited list, but it shows you the manner in which
DeluxePaint II Single Drive CJser Tip: If you are like me and the Console responds to ANSI sequences. Also, you can com
only have one drive on your system, there is a way to convince pound any number of options into a single sequence to change
DeluxePaint II to allow you to save your drawings to your actual more than one at a time, for example: Continued on Pg. 64

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Rush'n
Attack/Yie Ar
Kung-Fu
Computer: Commodore 64
Publisher: Konami
815 Mittel Drive
Wood Dale, IL 60191
Medium: Disk
Price: £25.95

Konami, one of the major forces in to

day's arcade halls, has recently
adapted some of their explosive action for
enjoyment on the Commodore home
screen. Rush'n Attack and YieAr Kung-
Fu, two popular coin-op titles that have Carrying a fitting "Double Feature" tag, this could very
swallowed more than their share of tokens
well be the best one-two arcade combination to come
and quarters over the past year, can now
be challenged from the comfort of the fam along this year.
ily room. Both contests deal with fighting
men up against unbelievable odds, both lar. The opposition and obstacles just keep ing plateaus. There are also bonus weap
require a combination of quick reflexes on coming. The brutal road to the captives ons that can be collected any time your
and mental alertness to be conquered and is divided into four sections: Missile Base, surrogate can give a special white-colored
both are now available in the same single- Harbor, Bridge and Prison Camp. Aside enemy soldier a terminal taste of his
disk bargain package. Carrying a fit from pausing to watch a short intermis knife. These high-powered additions, like
ting "Double Feature" tag, this could very sion that is played out between stages, the a fiame thrower or grenade launcher,
well be the best one-two arcade combina only other chance you'll get to stop for a come with a very limited supply of ammo
tion to come along this year. breather is when your surrogate dies. Oth and are activated by a tap of the key
Rush'n Attack takes the classic ladder- er than that, it's sprint, stab, duck, stab, board's space bar. With bullets flying and
and-platform style contest and places it jump, stab and stab some more. Your trig soldiers converging, this can be a tough
behind the well-guarded lines of an offi ger finger had better be in top shape. control move to pull off. However, the ex
cially unnamed but easily identifiable Each battlefield is given its own de tra destructive muscle is well worth the
U.S. enemy. Your mission, which might tailed look, with accurate building and extra effort.
easily fall under the "suicidal" heading, landscape representations defining the lo Rush'n Attacks graphics and animation
requires you to penetrate miles into hos cales. As different as these environments are certainly up to snuff, with over a half
tile enemy territory, enduring all soils of might appear, they're all built along the dozen defined characters running around
offensive assaults and defensive ramparts, same framework, which consists of a an often-congested screen with only an oc
so that you can ultimately rescue a small three-tiered structure linked together by a casional trace of visual flickering. An
group of American POWs trapped inside series of connecting ladders. As your sol audio backdrop helps to set the scene,
a heavily fortified prison camp. dier moves along, the challenge comes in mixing a rhythmic percussion accompani
The opposition is equipped with ar trying to avoid and subdue a wide assort ment with the wartime sounds of gun
mored vehicles, bomber planes, killer ca ment of mobile attackers, while simulta shots, roaring engines and wailing sirens.
nines, grenade launchers, mine fields, ma neously circumventing the various sta Fast and unforgiving, this contest is a
chine gunners, paratroopers, helicopters, tionary pitfalls scattered about. What per gratifying mix that will test your nerve
and wave after wave of enemy infantry so sonalizes each stage is not a change in and endurance. Best of all, it's only half
proficient in the art of hand-to-hand com this tiered design, but rather a variation the story.
bat, that even their touch spells death. On on the characteristics of the legions that With the glut of martial arts games cur
your side you have you. Alone. And you swarm after your surrogate. The troops rently available, we've all been exposed to
are equipped with ... a knife. Hmmm. get tougher and wiser as the game pro computerized karate matches in one form
Who dealt these hands anyway? gresses, and the player is burdened with or another. With Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Kon
Using your joystick, you direct your the task of devising new ways to outwit ami takes this proven theme and shifts it
hero across a perilous screen that pans to and overrun his enemy. into a higher arcade gear. All the familiar
reveal a terrain teeming with bloodthirsty But all is not as bleak as it seems. Your elements, like one-on-one combat, multi
soldiers. To call this game relentless would solo soldier is initially given five lives, ple attack options and opponents of in-
be akin to calling Schwarzenegger muscu- with extra lives awarded at various scor Continued on pg, 60

20 FEBRUARY 1988
KONAMI HITS ARE HEADING HOME.
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64 AND 128 SOFTWARE REVIEWS" Reviewed by Mark Cotone

Wheel of
Fortune/
Family Feud/
Jeopardy
Computer: Commodore 64
Publisher: ShareData
7400 W. Detroit St.
Suite C170
Chandler, AZ 85226
Medium: Disk
Price: S12.99 each

How many times have you sat down to

watch a television game show, and
from the comfort of your recliner. mar
veled at how easily you could have defeat again. The dollar amount allotted for each the matches competitive, three contes
ed the whole bunch of smiling, nodding accurate selection is determined by a vari tants must participate in each game. But
dolts who qualified to be contestants? ation of the common roulette wheel, which iffriends or family aren't around, the com
Well, stop boasting and hold onto your the players are required to spin before puter will gladly step in to provide a for
ego, for your proving ground has arrived. their turn. To keep things interesting, midable foe.
Thanks to ShareData. three of televisions aside from cash amounts, this wheel is Oh yes, and lest we forget, this game
most popular game shows—"Wheel of also spiced up with such avoidable spaces also has its familiar level of sex appeal.
Fortune," "Family Feud" and "Jeopar as "Bankrupt" and "Lose a Turn." Play Although the First Lady of Letter Turn
dy"—have been scheduled to appear on continues until one person can guess the ing, Vanna White, need not fear for her
your Commodore home screen. It's a soft exact contents of the hidden phrase, job, this program employs its own viva
ware series that brings new meaning to whereupon he is awarded all the money cious female hostess who carries out the
the concept of viewer participation, for it he has amassed in that round. Three responsibilities of her real life counter
lets the user compete against computer or rounds are played, with the overall cash part. Decked out in a sleek, tight-fitting
friends in remarkable reproductions of the winner given a chance to go for a valuable dress and matching pumps, this sultry
network hits. The tension, excitement and prize in a solo bonus game. redhead saunters across stage to flip and
challenge have all been captured on disk Those familiar with the television ver reveal the puzzle's letters with all the
to provide what promises to be an enjoy sion of this contest will find that it has grace and style of a seasoned pro. Between
able, yet humbling experience. survived the transition completely intact. walks, she can even be seen enthusiasti
The top half of the game screen is an exact cally applauding each contestant's spins
Wheel of Fortune copy of the show's four-tiered phrase from the sidelines. Let's face it, it just
Whether you tune into this show to test board, where the hidden puzzle is dis wouldn't be the same without her.
your smarts or just to see what delectable played and framed between the pair of The only part of this game that is miss
delight Vanna will be modeling, ShareDa- trademark yellow circles. The remaining ing (but not missed) is the tedious prize
ta's rendition is geared to please. For those portion of the screen houses the rest of the buying sessions, where the round s victor
of you who only recently arrived on this play elements, including a Used Letter is given a chance to choose some goodies
planet, let me explain the game's premise. Strip, where players can check on the from a showcase of overpriced merchan
Wheel ofFortune is very similar to the old guesses already made; an automatic score- dise. No matter, that was the part of the
pencil and paper Hangman diversion. board, where the contestants' names, cur show where you would check to see what
Three players, competing against each rent bank rolls and overall earnings are was on the other channels anyway.
other, are presented with a series of blank tallied; and a scaled-down computerized
squares clustered together to represent a copy of the famous wheel itself, ready to Family Feud
group of hidden words. They then take whirl away with the tap of a button. Undoubtedly, this game will always be
turns guessing letters in the puzzle, trying The program's puzzles are a diversified remembered for the excessive pucker pow
to uncover the mystery phrase. If one lot, ranging from city names and famous er of its original host, Richard Dawson.
chooses a letter not contained in the solu landmarks to poignant quotes and nota But behind this lip gloss remains an inter
tion, play is passed on to the next contes ble celebrities. No mention is made by the esting and often surprising contest which
tant. If a puzzle letter is correctly deduced, publisher concerning the number of puz tests the players' perception of the opin
it is displayed in its proper position, and zles held in inventory, but I've played at ions, tendencies and ideals of everyday
the player is awarded a monetary point least three dozen four-round contests, and America.
value, along with the chance to guess have yet to come across a repeat. Tb keep Continued on pg. 114

24 FEBRUARY 1988
64 and 128 SOFTWARE REVIEWS Reviewed by Russ Ceccola

Stationfall mor is the following response that the

game gives whenever Floyd is present and
Computer: Commodore 64
Stationfall easily ranks as the copyright is evoked with either the
Publisher: Infocom
SCRIPT or $VERSION command: "Floyd
125 Cambridge Park Drive Meretzky's best work and the
looks out at you, right through your com
Cambridge, MA 02140
Medium: Disk
most interesting story to puter screen. 'See that copyright notice?'
he asks in a defiant tone. Tf anyone tries
Price: $34.95 appear in adventure format pirating this disk, they'll have Floyd to
Have you ever wanted to explore a de in a long while. answer to.'"
serted space station like a typical Also, if you're like me and try as many
adventure of the crew of that famous star- commands as possible, you will probably
ship Enterprise? Do you think that you changes after you reach the space station. find many more quips. For example, I
can handle all the excitement that the What you find at the station is unbeliev typed in ZORK and the computer re
Stellar Patrol has to offer? Most impor able. No one is there but a super-intelli sponded with "Gesundheit!" Stationfall
tantly, does the possibility of saving the gent robot named Plato, who likes to read has so many more unusual responses that
entire galaxy from virtual destruction ap poetry, an Arcturian balloon creature and you might just want to devote an entire
peal to you? an ostrich. Later you begin to realize what game to finding them. Here are a few com
If so, Stationfall, the newest offering happened to all of the people as the ma mands you might want to try: KILL
from Infocom's Steve Meretzky and sequel chinery begins to go haywire and revolt FLOYD, TICKLE FLOYD, CLEAN
to his best-selling Planetfall, may just be against you. Eventually, even Floyd be FLOOR, FOOTNOTE 11 and WHAT IS A
the next game to catch your eye at the gins to act strangely. As you discover the GRUE.
software store. true story behind the goings-on at the Meretzky explains his laughable ap
Stationfall takes place five years after station, you realize you have little time proach to interactive fiction: Tve always
your exploration of the doomed planet Re- to save yourself and the entire universe. enjoyed comedy and humor in one sense
sida in Planetfall. You've been promoted Floyd makes a return appearance in or the other. One real source of humor is
from Ensign Seventh Class to Lieutenant Stationfall as your beloved companion. when games go into testing. All of a sud
First Class. After your promotion, you His endearing charm and childish antics den, there are a lot of people playing the
thought that the Stellar Patrol would be and humor have made the little robot a game and making suggestions. Human
more interesting; instead, you were stuck very popular character. Although he still interaction always produces some funny
on the paperwork task force—a job worse hasn't surpassed his record of four succes things. It's easier to put in responses that
than grotch cage cleaning. Your assign sive paddleball hits, Floyd will capture the are funny or snide rather than opening up
ment for today is to fly over to Space Sta affection of any gamer. Meretzky ex an entire new set of responses with a seri
tion Gamma Delta Gamma 777-G 59/59 plained how Floyd was created: "When I ous one."
Sector Alpha-Mu-79 to pick up a supply of wrote Planetfall, I decided that there Plato is Floyd's new friend in Planetfall
Request for Stellar Patrol Issue Regula should be one character other than you, and serves a purpose that doesn't become
tion Black Form Binders Request Form the player. Because there were so many apparent until later in the game. Al
Forms. What you think is going to be a characters with smaller roles in Infocom though Meretzky says, "I didn't want to
boring day turns into another adventure games that would essentially disappear detract from Floyd—I still wanted him to
with the future of the galaxy at stake. after a puzzle was solved, none could real be the major focus," Plato is a well-devel
It's been almost four years since Pla.net- ly be that well-developed. Right away, I oped character who takes the serious ap
falh release. The game was lauded as the though that the other character should be proach, but if you read the text carefully,
"Best Adventure Game of 1983" by a robot, yet I wanted to make him differ you'll find he enjoys playing with Floyd,
InfoWorld and Meretzky was named the ent from robots I had seen in movies and especially "Hider-and-Seeker."
"Best Software Designer of 1983" by Video read about in books." Like all other Infocom games, the pack
Review. Stationfall even surpasses the Stationfall is an all-text adventure aging and inserts distinguish Stationfall
brilliance of Planetfall and throws some game that relies heavily on the imagina from other adventures you might find in a
uniquely Meretzky puzzles at your feet. In tion of the player to construct the specific software store. The game includes three
a recent interview, Steve admitted that order of events in the story. Because there Stellar Patrol Forms, a set of blueprints
Stationfall was late in coming, but ex are no pictures, the descriptions given are for the space station and a Stellar Patrol
plained his reasoning: '1 took a few years very concise, and there is a lot of room patch with your rank. I found the blue
to write the sequel because I didn't want to include more options in the space in prints very helpful in mapping the space
to get burned out on the Planetfall uni memory that would have been given to station, for it has nine levels and many
verse. I had always wanted to write a se graphics. rooms. It's easier to map each level sepa
quel, but I wanted to wait until I had a Meretzky went all out in Stationfall and rately than to try to connect them togeth
reasonably good story line and good ideas stocked the game profusely with witty re er. Make sure that you leave a lot of room
for re-using Floyd and the Planetfall uni sponses to otherwise standard player ac for Level 5. Meretzky states, "I was in
verse without rehashing things." tions. It's this brand of humor that estab spired by the set of blueprints for the
Although your original goal in Station- lishes Meretzky as the foremost humorist Enterprise from Star Trek that were
fall is to pick up those forms, the goal of interactive fiction. Typical of this hu Continued on pg. 115

26 FEBRUARY 1988
 Time passes. Things of a mouse or joystick. right into the GEOS disk.
get old. Let's face it, even Time Warps Discovered And when you put them
Willie Mays retired. So together with geoWrite
there's no way your Com With GEOS, every Workshops LaserWriter
modore can compete with thing speeds up. Including compatibility, every new
a newer machine, right? you. Because the system is GEOS document comes out
incredibly fast and ridicu looking like an old master.
Wrong.
The fact is that there's lously easy to learn: GEOS
shows you options, you
GEOS
actually more power in your
Commodore 64 or 128 than point at what you want and
when you bought it. All you click your mouse. I ;JWHK: EN'MRtUNMENl OlttLAH

need is GEOS or GEOS 128 End of lesson.

to find it. Now, once you know
GEOS is the revolu that, you know how every
tionary operating system other GEOS application
that works your hardware works, too. Like geoWrite,
up to seven times harder which lets you punch up
than it's ever worked before. paragraphs with five
Loading. Processing. different fonts. Or geoPaint, the xe» oh-katisg fv?tem srANDAiin h 'ii

Accessing information. which dresses up diagrams - n. <-. AST* i> i\>MI1 TfcHS

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But how does all this almost every purpose. merely a sampling of what
affect your Commodore's You can finally get the GEOS environment
future? Well, it means you organized with geoFile, the has to offer. Because even
don't ever have to worry database that searches, finds as you read this, legions
about it becoming obsolete, and lists almost anything of our engineers are hard
because there are all kinds that you want to search, find at work, developing even
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GEOS128
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late mathematics or figure
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even more uses.

All of which means you

geoCalc. If writing's your get a whole lot more out of
style, geoWrite Workshop your Commodore than you
can help you hammer out ever bargained for. And
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geoPublish is the desktop keep your Commodore from
publishing program that getting older, that's certainly
is still making headlines something it could live with
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Dan Dare
Dan so that he lobs grenades at Mekon's
Computer: Commodore 64 dome, destroying it and then runs
Publisher: Electronic Arts through a secret passage to the Anastasia.
1820 Gateway Dr. I won't say any more about the last two
San Mateo. CA iU-104 parts, for that would be spoiling the game.
Medium: Disk A few peculiarities that make Dan Darx>
Price: $19.9.5 even more of a challenge occur in the first
two parts of the game. There are three en
When is a comic book not a comic trances from the surface to the complex.
book? When it gets transformed however, you only need to find one to play
into a computer game, of course. At least the game to the end. The catch is that
this is the case for Dan Da?v, a popular only by finding all three will you rescue
British comic. As the hero of the title, you both friends and destroy Mekon. So, you
must survive an adventure in which you should find all three entrances for the full
ultimately save the earth from total de enjoyment of the game and its finale.
struction. In this new game from Electron In the complex, there are many ladders
ic Ails' Amazing Software line, an excel that end halfway to the ground and gird
lent low-priced graphic adventure awaits ers usable as bridges that stop in mid-air.
your expertise. Finding the correct way to navigate
Dan Dare sets before you a strong chal around these dead ends is the key to suc
lenge that leads you from the surface of an The arcade-like action cess in the Prison Complex. The complex
asteroid heading straight for earth to an is many levels deep, and you'll need to re
underground complex patrolled by Treens adventure captures the member where all the open doors and lad
ready to fight. The story that brings you to comic book version of the ders lead. For this reason. Dan Dare will
the surface of the asteroid is a simple one. keep you occupied for a long time. You
Dan Dare's arch enemy. Mekon. inter "Pilot of the Future." can't map the complex or asteroid surface
rupts a television broadcast one evening because of the clock that is constantly
to warn earthlings that they mast meet running. Only repeated play will familiar
his demands or the asteroid hurtling to keep the game interesting. These boxes ize you with the many screens involved in
ward the earth will destroy it. As Dan are like cartoon dialogue bubbles and the game. Finding the correct objects for a
Dare, you travel to the surface of the as make Dan Dare almost like an interactive particular puzzle is another skill you must
teroid in your space ship Anastasia along comic strip. develop. The puzzles are fairly simple if
with your friends Spaceman Albert Fitz- While Above Ground, you must ulti you can find what you need.
willian Digby and Professor Jocelyn Pea- mately find three entrances into the Pris The graphics and music in Dan Dare
body and your faithful pet. Stripey. Upon on Complex. These entrances are hatches are attractive enough to hold their own in
splitting up on the asteroid. Digby and that you must open. However, getting to an arcade. The detail in animation is in
Professor Peabody are captured by Treens the hatches may require you to fight credible, especially in the case of Stripey.
and imprisoned. You must release your Treen guards or find special objects. The He does somersaults and rolls himself into
friends and destroy the asteroid, thus sav most important object that you need is the a ball and makes very unusual facial ex
ing the earth. torch, for it enables you to see in the dark pressions. Dan Dare himself is given an
Even though the plot oWan Dare may ness in the complex below. authoritative look and hat that hangs low
sound standai'd, the technique used in the The Prison Complex is much tougher to over his eyes. The music and sound effects
design of the game is unique. You move navigate than the passages and hatches are original and consist of a catchy game
the on-screen characterization of Dan in the immediate surface of the asteroid. theme and realistic versions of punches
Dare through the different passages and There are many Treen guards, and you and explosions.
up and down ladders by using the joystick. may actually have to fight some of them The only complaint I have about Dan
However, at certain times, a message box to get access cards. While Above Ground, Dare is the way that you fight the Treens.
pops up on the screen that tells you about you don't need to fight any guards-you You must hold the joystick button and re
something that you just walked over or can avoid them. In the complex, you need peatedly move the joystick either diag
touched. the cards to open doors to other areas and onally up for high punches or diagonally
As an example, when you are standing the vaults holding Peabody and Digby; down for low punches. It's very difficult to
near the vines in the Above Ground part therefore, get ready to throw some lefts maintain a perfectly diagonal direction on
of the game, a box pops up with "Aha... a and rights. After releasing Digby and any joystick more than a few times. The
vine" in it. When you press the button and Peabody, the action really gets tough. designers should have made the direc
move the joystick, you find that you can Figuring out what to do with the giant tions to move the joystick simply up and
TIE THE VINE or CUT THE VINE. As a industrial laser is an unusual puzzle. down. It takes practice to learn how to
hint, you'll have to do both to be successful Once you figure this out, a door opens that punch effectively, losing little energy of
in Dan Dare. There are many of these takes you to Mekon. He is in a control your own and decreasing the energy of the
boxes that pop up during the game; they dome, firing at Dan. You must control Continued on pg. 85

30 FEBRUARY 1988
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64 AND 128 SOFTWARE REVIEWS Reviewed by Scott A. May

Telegames two-player game played on a vertical

Vol. 1-3 board consisting of six columns sectioned

into rows. Players take turns stacking to
kens in each column, building from the
Computer: Commodore 64 bottom row. The object is to connect four
Publisher: S&S Software tokens in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal
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Mexico, MO 65265 simple game is to spoil your opponent's
Medium: Disk moves without sacrificing your own.
Price: $9.95 per volume TeleDice, based on the popular dice
The games were designed to game Yahtzee, is a very entertaining
One of the fastest-growing segments be used with a modem or game of luck for one to four players. Using
in the home computer market is five electronic dice, each player is allowed
telecommunications. Modems are becom a single computer. three "rolls" to obtain special number
ing less mysterious and more affordable combinations. The final roll is tallied and
for nearly all computer owners. Pay ser designers call "Constant Chat." This fea entered on a score card divided into differ
vices—such as Q-Link and Compu ture allows both players to freely commu ent categories. These include single num
Serve—and public bulletin board systems nicate (via the keyboard) at any point dur ber scores (1-6), three or four of a kind,
are accessed more than ever before. ing the game. On-screen instructions are straights, full house and the ultimate: five
Sooner or later, most users will ask included for each game in the series. of a kind. When (and if) all categories are
what to do after the newness wears off. Telegames 1 features three traditional filled, the highest score wins. Great graph
Let's face it-you can only chat with board games—chess, backgammon and ics and animation help make this a per
friends, read stock market reports, and checkers. TeleChess assumes both sides fect "tele-party" game.
up/download programs so many times be are familiar with this classic two-player The last disk, Telegames 3, is perhaps
fore the thrill is gone. It's only a matter of strategy contest. Courtesy commands al the best in the series. Its main attraction
time before this electronic window to the low players to take back moves, restart is TeleShip, undoubtedly the best version
world becomes clouded with repetition. the game and save/load games in pro of Battleship ever designed for the 64.
User sophistication can, it seems, breed gress. Another handy feature is the ability Played alone against a cunning com
boredom. to produce a hardcopy printout of moves. puter challenger, TeleShip is great.
S&S Software is one of the few compan TeleChess utilizes standard letter/ Against another player, however, the
ies with insight into the "telecomputing number combinations that correspond to game really comes to life. Each side sets
gap." Telegames Vol. 1-3 delivers a tech columns/rows on the game board. The pro up by hiding five ships of various size on
nological link between popular board gram will allow illegal moves, so mutual the game grid. Players then take turns
games and the new age of telecommunica honesty is the only policy. Likewise, both firing single shots—or a salvo—in the
tions. These three packages (seven games players must agree with whether check dark, hoping to land a direct hit. The first
in all) for the 64 allow players to engage mate has occurred. Captured pieces are to sink all five ships wins the game.
in friendly contests of skill and luck via displayed on each side of the board. The TeleShip is highlighted by two game
modem. The concept itself is not new. But graphics are clean and well drawn. screens (incoming and outgoing volleys),
the low retail price and quality of design TeleGammon is a slickly-programmed detailed graphics and explosive sound ef
make Telegames a perfect choice for those game for two players. Because backgam fects. This game is good enough to tie up
suffering from modem fatigue. mon can be confusing for the beginner, phone lines for hours at a time;.
Each volume in this collection contains complete on-screen instructions (with ex Telegames 3 also features TeleMatch, of
two disks (one for each player). Although amples and illustrations) are included. fering three variations of the memory
the games were designed to be used with a The TeleGammon game board and game concentration. This two-player ver
modem, they can also be enjoyed by one or playing pieces (called "stones") are nicely sion can be played by matching shapes,
two players on a single computer. To allow detailed and feature some fine spot ani color or sounds. Each player takes turns
long-distance interaction, each game con mation. The Constant Chat feature is par uncovering two cards on the game board,
tains its own small terminal program, set ticularly helpful here, allowing exper making a mental note of the image or
for 300 baud/full duplex. Modems support ienced players to "talk" a novice through sound hidden there. The most challenging
ed by Telegames include: 1650,1660,1670 the first few games. This fast-moving play mode is matching the often hilarious
compatibles, Volks 6480 and most Hayes game is sure to become a favorite. sound effects. A lot of work went into this
compatibles. The final game on this disk, TeleCheck, game, and it shows.
Setting up a game is done by first estab is a simple rendition of the classic cracker- Overall, these initial offerings by S&S
lishing a voice connection. Switching to barrel contest. The basic structure re Software are truly inspired. The market is
terminal mode—the start of a game—is mains intact, including features like auto definitely hungry for new types of tele
initiated by one player following simple matic "king-ing." A perfect game for both communications software, especially of
on-screen prompts. A one-line scrolling youngsters and the young at heart. this caliber. Each disk in the Telegames
text window handles keyboard commands Telegames 2 features two more contem series should prove an instant hit with
during a game and also provides what the porary contests. The first, TeleCon4, is a modem users everywhere. Q]

32 FEBRUARY 1988
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DigiPaint
Computer: Amiga
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MJ was the first product to allow users
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and Modify (HAMl mode. Being able to
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what if you don't own a camera? Or what
if the only place that the image exists is in
your imagination? Well the people at
NewTfek have come through again. This
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painting program that works not in the
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Before I talk about DigiPaint. let's re
view how HAM mode really works, for you
need to understand HAM so that you can
grasp its limitations. The easy part of
HAM is this: you can work either in 320 X
DigiPainfs strength is in the manipulation of colors
200 or 320 X 400 pixel resolution (this is and shades.
interlaced HAM mode). The other easy
part is that there are normally four bit
planes used for HAM, which allow you to
The solution to the problems associated boxes. The one on the extreme left dis
use up to 16 different colors i of the possi
with color transition involves a lot of ad plays the current color selection. This box
ble 4096 colors available).
vanced calculation and planning. Subtle is quite large, making it much easier to
Here's the confusing part. There are two
changes in the 16-color palette can make observe the true color selected. The other
more bitplanes in HAM mode. These per
a big difference in transition smoothness. three colored boxes show colors that are
form the magic. If both of these planes
HAM painting programs therefore re somehow related to the current color. The
hold zero bits, then the pixel is left unmo
quire much more advanced computational left box shows 256 different colors that
lested, and the color that is displayed is
algorithms than standard Amiga paint vary in green and blue components, but
determined solely by the four other bits.
ing programs. have the same level of red as the current
However, if either (or bothi of the last two
When you first boot-up DigiPaint you color. The center and right boxes each
bit planes contain one bit. then the color
will notice that it has an interesting user show 256 more colors with the same level
that would have normally been selected
will be modified. Depending upon which of interface. DigiPaint devotes a separate of green and blue, respectively.
the last two bits are set. either the colors' screen solely to user options and informa Next to these boxes are three sliding
red, green or blue value will be thrown out tion. The main painting area is displayed (proportional) gadgets. These sliders dis
and replaced with the corresponding color behind this smaller screen, referred to as play numbers corresponding to the red,
from the pixel to the present pixel's imme the "Toolbox." This area, which you can green and blue values of the current color
diate left. This is why HAM can at any in drag up or down, contains infonnation By moving these sliders, you can instant
stant display colors that are not present in and selectable options. Due to the nature ly select any of the possible 4096 colors.
any of the 16 color registers that are avail of Amiga screens, only the portion of the Unlike most proportional gadgets, these
able at the time. painting area that is above the Toolbox three have colors occupying each possible
What does all this red. green and blue will be displayed. You will not see any position that each gadget can occupy.
bit information concerning HAM mean? thing below it, only a black void. These background colors represent colors
Well, the problem is that when you want On the extreme left are the colors that that can be selected by just moving the
to change colors from one pixel to the next currently occupy the 16 color registers corresponding gadget on top of one of
that can be used in HAM mode. You may these background colors. Therefore, these
it is not always possible to just use any of
the 4096 colors at any time. Since you can use any of these without worrying about 48 colors (16 colors times three sliding
only change one of the three RGB values HAM color transitions. (The DigiPaint gadgets) represent all the colors that re
at a time, it may be necessary to take up manual refers to the HAM color transi quire only one pixel to perform a transi
to three pixels to change from one color to tion side effect as "fringing.") Next to the tion from the current color.
another. 16-color palette are four large colored Continued on pg, 86

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Phantasie
I and III These are classic
Computer: Amiga "dungeons and
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main objective of which is to defeat the
powerful Nikademus. who is one bad
dude! Only Phantasie I and /// have been (the stronger the monsters, the more gold who is a level thirteen ranger. In order for
ported over to the Amiga. and better weapons you will find), and him to move up to level fourteen, he will
once your party has entered a town, you need 1,183,932 experience points (yes, you
Phantasie I may distribute the weapons to different read it right; that's one million). This pro
The object of Phantasie / is to free the members of the party. cess takes forever, even when you can bat
isle of Gelnor from Nikademus' evil power. One note of caution; the insert card that tle the high level monsters. I do not know
You must form a party to go and explore came with Phantasie I is not correct, and it why every adventure game insists on such
the isle, but be forewarned, it won't be fails to explain many things. When you a high amount for you to move from level
easy. You begin in a town with five build first un-box Phantasie, you will need to to level! Wouldn't you get bored if it took
ings displayed while a character walks make a backup copy. The program is not you two to three weeks (about. 10-20 hours
back and forth on the street. To select a copy protected, so just use the standard of play I just to advance to the next level?
building, click the left mouse button on its Workbench copy format. Now use your I also had a complaint about the dun
door. Once selected, you will have a spe backup copy instead of the master disk. geon save routine. When you exit a dun
cial menu for the building you clicked on. You will also need to format a blank disk geon, you are asked if you wish to save the
To use this menu, hold the right mouse or use an already-formatted disk to back dungeon map. Sounds good, right? Wrong!
button while scrolling through the op up your characters. There is a minor pro The dungeon save routine will only save
tions. All buildings and menu options are grammer's mistake with Phantasie. Those one dungeon map. So. if you want to save
described in the manual. of you who do not understand the CLI a map of another dungeon, any other dun
Your party will have to map out (by might find it difficult to access the Phan geon map you have saved will be erased!
simply moving around your screen) the tasie Utility Program. Tb access this util One last complaint is about the use of a
isle of Gelnor. and you will need to explore ity you will need to do the following: window while the party is crossing an
the many dungeons you encounter. While When asked for Workbench, insert your ocean or river. The window displays a list
your party is exploring, you will meet backup Phantasie disk. Just after insert ing of all party members and tells wheth
many evil monsters 180 different monsters ing the disk, hold down CTRL-D and keep er or not a member has taken any dam
in all). Some of the monsters will be holding it down until you see BREAK CLI age. I find it quite frustrating, because ev
friendly, and some evil. The monsters' and get a 1> prompt. If this did not hap ery time you move one space, the window
strength will vary: Giant Ants are easy to pen, leave the disk in the chive, re-boot pops up.

kill, for example, while Black Knights are and try again. Now, type BACKUP and
very strong and powerful. When there is press RETURN. Summary
an encounter, you will have a different set Now a window should open which has Phantasie I combines good graphics,
of menus from which you choose what you some options on it. Select the option you sound and requesters to make an interest
want to do—fight, threaten, greet mon- want by clicking the left mouse button on ing game. If you don't mind the slow pace
sters, beg for mercy or flee. If you choose it and follow the directions. Remember, necessary to advance your character and
to fight, you will be presented with a bat when it asks for the Phantasie game disk, enjoy the encounters with the monsters
tle requester. From the requester, you you should insert the backup you made and exploring dungeons, I would recom
click the left mouse button on the charac instead. That's it, you're done! mend Phantasie I.
ter you want. Once the character has been I have several complaints about the
chosen, you are presented with another re game. The major one is the time required Phantasie I Hints
quester from which you choose a battle op to achieve a certain level. There are twen When you begin a game and want to
tion. These options are thrust, slash, ty levels in all for which to build your create a party ofadventurers, include the
lunge, attack, parry or cast spell. If your character. The first ten levels go fairly fast following:
party has successfully defeated the mon (but not at lightning speed mind you). For Two Fighters—Humans and Lizard
sters, you will find some gold and weapons example, I have a character called Vince Continued on pg. Ill

36 FEBRUARY 1988
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LexCheck
most words are better. That isn't necessar
Because only two word ily true since size is often paid for with loss
Computer: Amiga
of speed. So the key to happiness with a
Publisher: CDA (Complete Data processors are mentioned by
Automation, Inc.) spell check program is not so much the
P.O. Box 1052 name, I feared LexCheck number of words it contains, but whether
Yreka, CA 96067 it contains the words you need and can get
would work only with them. to them quickly. LexCheck passes the test.
Price: $42.95
Those fears were unfounded. It is large and fesi Its 100,000-word list
contains everything from '"abaca" to "zy-
~W exCheck is a fast, mouse-driven spell- murgy" (look it up) and can check an en
Ld ing check program which works with File" from the pull-down project menu. tire file in less than a minute. If that isn't
most Amiga word processors on the mar Next a file requester window opens in the fast enough for you. because the program
ket, including the Workbench's Notepad. middle of the screen listing files stored on is not copy protected, you can (providing
The program is very simple to use and the disk. As the speller works, the screen you have enough memory i move Lex
will work with either the Amiga's default displays where in the alphabet the search Check to either RAM or hard disk.
or interlace screen. All LexCheck1?, com is currently working. This visual reassur LexCheck does not accommodate wild
mands can be issued using the keyboard, ance that the program is doing what you card searches. For instance, if you want to
but the intuitive mouse action allows even intended is welcome for both novice and find out how to spell "abandonment" by
the neophyte to use the program without veteran users. Once the document has looking up all the words that end with
once looking at the manual. Speaking of been loaded and checked for spelling, a "onment." you can't do it here. Neither
manuals, LexCheck's is about as small as menu of options appears. Now you can ei can you search using wild cards in the
you'll ever see without aid of a magnifying ther return to the main menu, list all the middle of the word pattern like "gr??n" to
glass. It is a 12-page booklet which even a words LexCheck did not recognize in the find "green." However, LexCheck uses an
fifth grader could read and understand in file or begin to correct the spelling. implied pattern search using the begin
under a quarter of an hour. It describes LexCheck shows its real power and ning characters of a word. For example, if
each of LexCheck's options in straight friendliness when you decide to correct the you aren't sure of the spelling of "impolite
English, and includes a one-page quick spelling of words in a file. The program ness," you could step the program through
reference card. shows the entire sentence in which the of a search by using "im," "imp,"' "impo," etc.
The two main options let you either fending word was found, plus the 28 words Or you could simply use "im" and scroll
check the spelling of an entire document which most closely resemble the word in through the spell list until you see the
or look up a particular word. question. You can now either click on one word. In fact, you can scroll through the
Option one, Check Document, can only of the displayed words, or scroll through program's entire list of words by clicking
be performed after the file has been saved the 100,000-word list until you find the on the scroll bars if you want.
to disk. When you choose this option you word you intended and have it replace the On the whole, I found LexCheck an ex
are asked if the file was created by either word LexCheck found suspect. Or you can cellent spelling checker. It is simple to use,
Textcraft, Scribble!, or Notepad or is sim type a correction from the keyboard. has a healthy-sized word list and is fast.
ply a straight ASCII text file. Because On the other hand, if the program found Its command structure is logical, and the
only two word processors are mentioned a word (perhaps a person's namel which program seems to be bulletproof. In my
by name, I feared LexCheck would work you know is correctly spelled, you can ac testing the program, it never failed to per
only with them. Those fears were un cept that spelling and continue or add form properly (there is nothing worse than
founded. In testing, I had the program that word to LexCheck's list of words so it a productivity program that decides to
check and correct the spelling of files cre will recognize it in future documents. belly up halfway through a project). The
ated with Vizawrite, WordPerfect and Once you've finished. LexCheck will only curiosity I encountered, was the loca
ProWrite, and it handled them all without automatically save the corrected docu tion of the HELP command. Rather than
a hitch, fEditor's Note: The most recent ment to the same directory using the use the Amiga's dedicated HELP key to
update includes support of both ProWrite original filename. But just in case you summon the program's two help screens,
and Vizawrite.] It even checked and cor made some changes by mistake, the origi the user must either access them via the
rected documents (not pages) created by nal file is preserved and renamed with the mouse or by pressing both the AMIGA
the desktop publishing program extension ".bak" added. key and the letter "H." I can't imagine
PageSetter's editor. The only time it had a The second main option lets you look up why that selection was used instead of the
problem with a file was when graphics specific words while you are writing a doc HELP key. Regardless, it works and the
were mixed with the text—while it could ument. Because LexCheck was designed to help screens are there if you need them.
check and correct spelling errors, it could work simultaneously with other programs With such an easy-to-use program, the
not resave the documents correctly. The in the Amiga's memory, switching be screens will rarely be used.
solution I found for checking documents tween it and your word processor is as One closing remark, in the "for your in
created with graphic-capable word proces simple as clicking on the front and back formation" category: LexCheck gets its
sors (e.g., ProWrite) was to check them be gadgets. name from the Greek word "lexis." which
fore graphics were added. Most of us judge spelling aids by size. means "a word." LexCheck lives up to its
Tb check a document you select "Check The theory being that the ones with the name—it checks words very well. Q

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Karate Kid II
Computer: Amiga
Publisher: Microdeal Ltd.
Box 68
St. Austell, Cornwall
PL25 4YB
United Kingdom
Price: .$39.95 You control
^T"\ aniel san! This fight is not tour- Miyagi's arm
JL/ nament! This time, the fight is for holding the
real! Live or die. man? This time there are
no trophies, no referees, just man against chopsticks.
man." Sound familial''.' Then perhaps you
have seen the movie "Karate Kid II"? The object of
Strap on your black belts, karate fans! Be
this screen is
cause from Microdeal comes Karate Kid
II, the computer game. to catch the
Game Play fly as quickly
Once the game has finished loading,
as possible.
you are shown a picture of Daniel and
Mivagi while the theme "Glory of Love'1
plays. You can choose a one-player game
by having a joystick in port two, or a two-
player game by having a joystick in both
ports. In a one-player game, you control
Daniel; in a two-player game, one controls
Daniel and the other Daniel's enemy.
The object of the game is to make it
through all eleven screens and defeat each game, but you must not get frustrated. An Overall View
enemy Daniel encounters. To defeat an Just remember, it took Miyagi forty years Karate Kid II combines good graphics,
enemy, you must score hits on the oppo to catch his first fly. But if that doesn't sound, music and speech to make a worth
nent's body until he has zero strength left. work, try a fly swatter! while game. The opponents you will en
You won't be at a loss for moves, for there The other bonus screen is the ice-break counter get progressively tougher and
are sixteen different moves in all! The ing scene from the movie. In this scene, smarter. Each of the eleven backdrop
moves without fire button pressed are: you control Daniel's concentration and screens is very nicely done. This is one ka
jump, high punch, move forward, kneel also his arm. In the upper right comer is rate game that is sure to keep you coming
and punch, duck, forward somersault, the famous drum which you must spin back for more.
move back, and turn and punch. By press very fast (the faster it spins, the harder
ing the fire button, you can perform a Daniel concentrates) by moving your joy Hints
flying kick, high kick, forward kick, low- stick in a circular motion, once you think Try to back your opponent into a corner
kick, sweep, backward somersault, back you are ready, push your fire button. This (but make sure it's not the other way
kick and roundhouse kick. As you can see. will cause Daniel's arm to let loose with a around), and low kick him time after time.
there are many combinations you can karate chop that would make Bruce Lee This will work if executed properly and
come up with in order to knock out your jealous. This is perhaps one of the worst will cause your opponent to lose quite a
opponent. The variety of moves will keep things about the game. It is ridiculous few points.
you from getting bored, too. how hard and fast you must move your Get far away from your opponent, and
After every two screens, you are pre joystick. I tore up one of my famous ten- stay in a duck position (keep pushing
sented with a bonus screen. This screen million-shot Epyx joysticks while I was down). Now, as your opponent draws clos
will either be the famous fly-catching or trying to spin the drum on this screen. er to you, press the fire button. This will
ice-breaking scene from the movie. If you The programmer should have come up cause you to do a foot sweep time after
get the fly-catching sci*een, you control with an easier way to do this. He could time, if you wish. Your opponent will not
Miyagi's arm with the joystick, and press have had you push the fire button rapidly, be able to get close to you by walking, un
the fire button to close the chopsticks then push the joystick in any direction to less he wants to fall flat on his face.
Miyagi holds. The object of this screen is swing Daniel's arm instead of the way it Do not be afraid to do a few forward and
(you guessed it) to catch the fly as quickly is now. Remember, when you get to the backward somersaults. If you learn how to
as possible. This is perhaps the most diffi final encounter, concentrate, Daniel san, execute these well, you can absolutely
cult bonus screen I have ever seen on a concentrate! smear your opponent. Q

40 FEBRUARY 1988
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City Desk line width, crop and magnify. The only op

City Desk will work with any tion I missed was the ability to embed text
Computer: Amiga (512K Required)
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publish documents, books, pam emerald, the text displayed in the editor is can be used on a City Desk page. (The pro
phlets, newspapers, magazines or any the default 8-point topaz. Each font, size gram disk includes a small library of clip
thing else printed on paper. The results, and style is distinguished by simple code art.) Graphics used by City Desk can only
which are both professional and afforda and plain English. be black and white. If you try to import a
ble, can include multiple columns, mixed The screen page can be divided into as design with more than those two colors.
fonts (both type and size) and graphics- many columns as you need. When you re City Desk will alert you that it must con
all of which you can move, change, resize, call a text file (or enter one via the head vert the colors to black and white before it
save to disk or print. The final layouts can line editor) a small arrow will appear. Tb can be used. This conversion routine
be dumped to either an inexpensive dot- place the text in a particular column, you works pretty well, but is slow, and there is
matrix printer or a laser printer for true simply point at it and click the mouse. no way to escape the conversion once it
typesetting quality. After text is placed on the page, it can be has begun. I now always convert files to
The first screen you'll see inside City moved around like a piece of paper. Sepa black and white from within the parent
Desk is a proportional page divided into rate pieces can be chained together to graphics program (usually much faster)
two columns and a smaller box containing form large documents or broken up to cre before using them with City Desk.
City Desk's 12 main tools. The tools in the ate smaller ones. All text can be selective Regardless of how powerful any desktop
small box allow you to move, copy, crop, ly resized, refonted and relocated at any publishing program is. it is judged by the
outline, underline, resize, edit, magnify or time. Once it has been placed on the page, quality of the final printout. Like any
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have to use the keyboard is to input or layout editor lets you do anything on with any matrix printer selected from
edit text for headlines or short stories. I screen you could with paper and scissors. Preferences as well as most laser printers.
found this logical scheme to communicate Plus you can escape from cropping or siz My Star SG10 gave me results I was de
with City Desk simple to master. ing errors simply by reselecting a tool and lighted with even though it's far from the
Most people, myself included, would ex starting over. I was especially happy with most expensive on the market. This qual
pect a desktop publishing program to in the way City Desk handled resizing text ity is possible because the program trans
clude a word processor of some sort. City and graphics. Even when objects were lates accurately and sends to the printer
Desk does and doesn't. You can write, for made small and then returned to large, no even the most detailed graphics. Text can
mat and input text directly into pages us detail (and we're talking about fine detail) be displayed in a variety of modes and
ing the headline editor (there is no limit . was lost, regardless of how often the object styles including right, left and center jus
on how much text it will hold), but com was changed. tifications.
pared to a dedicated word processor this The program uses two separate Users of laser printers will be happy to
editor leaves a lot to be desired. It's great moving tools—one which allows you to find City Desk includes some special font
for a few lines (headlines or cutlines to go move an object inside the page only and faces just for their use. Tb show off the pos
under graphics) but not much more. How ■ another that lets you move between the sibilities, MicroSearch created and print
ever. City Desk was designed to be com pages and the clipboard. At first I ques- ed the accompanying manual using a la
patible with the file standards used by . tioned the logic in this duplication of tools, ser printer. Non-laser printer users are of
most word processors. The program can but with experience the need became ob fered the seven regular fonts—opal, gar
accept text from all the word pircessors vious. Because at the smallest magnifica net, sapphire, ruby. etc. I was able to add
now on the market including Notepad. tion text can be almost invisible, it is pos- to that list by deleting the laser fonts from
The headline editor handles text as if it ■ sible to inadvertently move small pieces of my work disk and adding fonts from other
were a long row of'characters —like a ! text or even a graphic off the page and programs.
skinny piece of paper of infinite width. 1 lose it under a window if the universal Like so many Amiga products, City
The advantage to this arrangement: when move tool is used. If the default move tool Desk is designed to be controlled intuitive
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 SOFTWARE REVIEWS' Reviewed by Matthew Blais

TimeSaver Some CLI-related macros come prede

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vents the s:startup-sequence command fined in ROM, like "cd dfO:" and "copy #?
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quence file. length) into TimeSaver as you like until
The TimeSaver from C Ltd. is a unique One of TimeSaver's features which I you fill up the user macro memory<about
peripheral for the Amiga 1000 that found most useful, ironically, was its "his 7000 characters). User macros are identi
provides a battery-backed real-time clock, tory" function, which allows you to recall fied by an "action" key (any one of CTRL.
keyboard macros that work with any soft your previous CLI commands, then edit either ALT, either AMIGA, and RIGHT-
ware, password protection against un and re-enter them. Ironically because the SHIFT) in combination with any other
authorized users and more. Unfortunate implementation is again somewhat klu key. But you'd better write down the ma
ly, all this functionality comes at the ex gey and frustrating to use {TimeSaver cros you define, because if you forget what
pense of some user friendliness. prints your previous command to the keystrokes you used to name a macro,
What makes TimeSaver unique is the screen preceded by a semicolon, and re TimeSaver won't help you to find out. The
way it connects to your Amiga; it plugs types it after you have edited it), but it only way to delete an unwanted or forgot
into the keyboard port, and the keyboard still beats having no command recall or ten macro from memory is to delete all
plugs into it. It's small enough to hide editing at all. One major annoyance is macros—ouch!
away underneath the Amiga in back that while you are editing a command, If you have a nosy little brother who
where all of the cables and connectors are none of the keys will repeat. snoops around your Amiga when
and is quite invisible there. Bear in mind Unfortunately, there is no way for 77- you're out lor if you're just paranoid),
that Timesauer works only with the meSaver to tell if the keys you're pressing you'll appreciate TimeSaver's password se
Amiga 1000. are going to CLI or into a word processor curity feature. When it is enabled, Time'
There is no diskette of Amiga software or other application, so eveiything you Saver will lock the keyboard when the
included with TimeSaver because all of its type between RETURNs (including Amiga is first booted and will only unlock
functionality is provided by a microproces AMIGA-key keystrokes) is saved as an it after a four keystroke password is cor
sor, ROM and 8K of RAM within the unit. other "command" line. If you go from an rectly entered. You get to define your own
When the Amiga is on, TimeSaver draws editor to a CLI window, everything you password, but don't forget what it is unless
its power from the keyboard port, saving just typed in the editor is in TimeSaver's you'd like to take a tour of your Time-
its internal battery to keep its clock and command memory (which holds approxi Saver's insides and lose all your user mac
user-programmed macros alive when the mately the last 1000 characters typed), so ros as well. The only way to turn off the
Amiga is turned off. you can forget trying to recall your pre security feature if you forget your pass
TimeSaver intercepts all keystrokes vious CLI commands. You can get around word is to kill TimeSaver's power by dis
from the keyboard and sends most of this "feature" by disabling and re-en connecting its internal battery. If you do
them along to the Amiga unchanged. abling TimeSaver's command-save fea this, you will also lose all the macros
When it detects a key combination that ture whenever you switch to typing in a you've defined and have to reset Time-
signals a macro, it sends the macro con non-CLI window—that is, if you can re Savers internal clock, which like all of
tents to the Amiga instead. Tb a program, member to do it. TimeSaver's functions is done from the
it looks like the entire macro was just All ofTimeSavefa built-in functions are keyboard.
speedily typed on the keyboard by the accessed by using the HELP key in combi TimeSaver's automatic date-setting fea
user. Mouse movements and clicks can nation with other keys. Most of the func ture and macros are useful additions to
also be programmed in TimeSaver macros tions such as date, password, and startup any Amiga, and TimeSaver doesn't take
by using the keyboard mouse controls (an macro can be individually toggled on or up useful space or occupy any LO connec
AMIGA key with cursor or ALT keys). off, and if you are in CLI TimeSaver wi\\ tors as some Amiga clocks do. In addition,
Seeing the pointer zip around your screen display a "menu" of the current settings of it is nice to have your macros always at
while the mouse sits quietly on your desk the functions. This is the high point of your fingertips and not have to load them
is a bizarre sight indeed. TimeSaver's user friendliness. in from a disk even- time you boot. Time
TimeSaver sets the Amiga's own "soft All of TimeSaver's flags and options can Saver's security feature is novel and effec
ware clock" by sending the word "Date" be toggled while you are in any applica tive, since TimeSaver is invisible unless
followed by the current date and time and tion, but unless you are in CLI you prob you get down behind your Amiga and
a RETURN character. To CLI, it looks like ably won't see any indication that the know what you're looking for But if you
you just typed in the command to set the TimeSaver commands you are typing are want a CLI command history editor, you'd
date and time, and it runs the Date pro having any effect, which can be quite con be better off with one of the commercial or
gram which does just that. Needless to fusing. For instance, by typing in a new public domain "shell" programs. In addi
say, this only works when you are in CLI. macro without being able to see what tion, TimeSaver's poor manual and klu
TimeSaver can send the Date command you're typing... Are you sure you didn't gey, unfriendly user interface make it oc
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 REVIEWS Reviewed by Tim Jones

Amiga Book Libraries and Devices — $34.95

Review These two editions contain complete

listings of all the include files for C and
Assembly programmers as well as discus
In the twenty or so months at I have sions of the IFF standards and program
owned my Amiga, I have seen increas install custom menus, menu items and ming examples in both C and Assembly
ing numbers of Amiga-related books line sub-items and how the user's selections code. The data contained is designed to
the shelves at my local book stores. Need are transmitted to the program as well as augment what is discussed in the Intu
less to say, I am the owner oi'quite a few of how to program requesters (another form ition and Hardware manuals. The pro
them. What I would like to do here is pres of information/input device) and alerts gramming examples are well annotated
ent a compendium, albeit far from com (which are described as "emergency com and make it easy for anyone familiar with
plete, of books for this wonderful comput munications devices"). either language to follow what is going on.
er. The list includes books from many pub Aside from these display-oriented fea There is information on programming
lishing houses, and. if I miss one that you tures, this one also covers input and out devices such as the serial and parallel de
especially like ior dislike), it's because put methods, keyboard and mouse func vices, a complete and in-depth tutorial on
there is no way to cover them all in one in tions, graphics functions including lines, Amiga graphics, complete listings of the
stallment. Let's take a look at the ones text and images. The book closes with a library Macros, or functions, for Intuition
that particularly caught my eye. discussion of style in an attempt to get and the Exec and complete discussions of
programmers to create programs that will the Exec's memory management, multi
Amiga Technical Reference Series utilize similar functions, making it more tasking and inter-task communication
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc. natural or "Intuitive" for the user of an functions.
Four volume set application.
These books cover all aspects of the The appendices include information on Inside the Amiga
Amiga from the Hardware up through the the various defaults assumed by the Intu John Thomas Hem'
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for newcomers to the computer world, but This manual describes the various Amiga-related books that I own, this one
as reference guides for newcomers to the hardware aspects of the Amiga (1000 only has been the most helpful in my limited
world of the Amiga. Aside from what I at the time of printing!, including the attempts at C programming.
mention about each of these books, they 68000 MPU and custom chips. There is Mi*. Berry takes the reader on a very
all include a glossary of terms to make it information that will introduce the simply well-planned trip through the Amiga and
easier for the novice to understand the in inquisitive person to the Amiga's hard gives very instructional examples of most
formation that is being presented. A seri ware and more advanced sections that de of the capabilities of the machine. He pre
ous Amiga reference library is not com scribe how each register entry effects the sents the reader with a series of functions,
plete without these books: system. or macros, that, once entered and com
This edition is divided into eight chap piled, may be added to other programs,
Amiga Intuition Reference Manual ters and one appendix. The chapters are making it easier to get specific results
$24.95 divided into sections describing basic with less programming effort.
The Intuition Reference Manual is a hardware components and a survey of the He has included introductory sections
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ming the Amiga and making use of Intu custom chips, including the Copper and ious software components and specialized
ition, the Amiga's icon-oriented user in Blitter chips and their respective program Amiga-specific data types. There is com
terface. The book is broken up into twelve ming requirements as well as the hard plete coverage of the display functions,
chapters and three appendices. The first ware used to control sprites, playfields. Process Control, AmigaDOS, Intuition,
two chapters introduce you to Intuition audio, and various system interfaces. Animation, Sound and Speech, and Disk
and describe what is being provided for The appendix is a complete listing, both File I/O. Even though Mr. Beny doesn't
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"Intuitive" user interface. The remaining the graphics and audio system registers Addison-Wesley texts, his delivery is more
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Continued from pg. 50 There is also a discussion concerning re information for developers wishing to cre
get you started with the Amiga, then In lated functions/macros where necessary. ate additional disk interfaces for Amiga-
side the Amiga is a must. The text is fully indexed and the infor DOS, non-DOS interfaces (additional ser
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text. Mr. Peck takes the programmer to a are new to a DOS-type command environ
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AmigaBASIC. He demonstrates how easy
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it is the get this machine to do the many
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programming books by many months. without the need to compile or link a
making it fun to learn how to use his or
The Amiga Programmer's Handbook source file.
her Amiga.
has a complete breakdown of every func In section three, the AmigaDOS Filing
tion or macro included in the Exec, Intu System is fully discussed along with infor Conclusion
ition, Workbench, Layer and Graphics (di mation on using DiskEd, the disk editor As I said, this collection is not complete,
vided into three parts i libraries. The sec included in the developer's packages. The and will be updated from time to time. If
tions are structured alphabetically and in section is broken into discussions of the you know of a book that wasn't mentioned
clude complete examples of what is different disk block types, the different here, which you feel deserves recognition
required to call the function'macro, what, "HUNK" types and the different file types (either for good reasons or bad), drop me a
if anything, it returns and full descrip used by AmigaDOS. line and I'll be sure to check into it for a
tions of what the call will actually do. Also, section three includes advanced future installment. m

52 FEBRUARY 1988
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ADVENTURE ROAD " by Shay Addams

m
An Ore's Night
Out
News and opinion from a leading
explorer of those fantasy realms
called adventure games.

Ever get tired of rescuing one fantasy

land after another from ores, evil wiz
ards and other fiends? Then you'll appre
ciate Firebird's latest import from Eng
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those do-gooder duds and don the foul-
smelling garb of a beady-eyed ore. For in
Knight Ore you view the world through have them do your bidding, you can issue fans of text-only and graphics adven
the beady eyes of Grindleguts, an ore orders that may consist of full sentences tures, but those who like puzzles centered
caught on the wrong side of the tracks. containing direct objects and prepositions. on character interaction as well as object
This text and graphics tale is divided The 1,000-word parser facilitates a manipulation will have the most fun.
into three sections. "Loosed Ore," the ini number of unusual actions. You can tell Another recent Firebird import, Guild
tial scenario, defies you to cross a chasm Fungus to "Wait three turns, go to the of Thieves is Magnetic Scrolls' follow-up to
and return to Ore Mountain. This is the oak, get the sovereign, find me." Next you The Pawn. Set in the familiar land of Ker-
main puzzle, though you must unravel a might have Odin "Go to the cord, get it, ovnia, this one also casts you in the role of
few others to obtain the items needed for find Fungus, give the cord to Fungus, find anti-hero, an apprentice thief who must
solving it. While searching the forests, a Kris, kill him." This is extraordinary rob the Kerovnian Bank, a castle and the
castle and other areas, you'll meet a bevy parsing. Though some Infocom games al nearby village in order to qualify for
of characters—Synonym the Wizard, the low you to go directly to a location by typ membership in the Thieves' Guild. The
Annihilator, a hermit, and many more— ing "Go to room name," the Infocom same fine graphics style, well-written text
all moving about independently, engaging parser doesn't let you go to an object— yet and excellent parser make this a highly
you and each other in conversation. this one enables you to do so even if the recommended sequel that's available for
Their irreverent antics make this one of item is being carried around by another the 64 and the Amiga.
the funniest games of the year. Often character!
you'll "hear" them in the distance whin Amiga-using ores will find other sur Phantasie III, Amiga-style
ing, "Who took all the treasure?" or "How prising features. You can type "Oops" and Though I completed the 64 version of
can I get down the well?" Lampooning the undo your previous action, even if it killed Phantasie III, the Amiga conversion's
typical adventurer's obsession for trea you; this may be repeated to step back stunning graphics nearly seduced me into
sure, they scurry about seeking gold coins, move-by-move through the game. Youil playing this hack and slasher all the way
disks and similar items, even stealing marvel at another time-saving innova through again just to see more of the intri
from one another and you. You won't get tion: at any point you may "RAM save" cately-illustrated landscape. Numerous
any points for grabbing treasure and are your position, then ''RAM restore" it enhancements make this a far better fan
much more likely to get killed if you get much faster than by restoring a game tasy. You can use keyboard, mouse or pull
into a fight over loot. Since the locals will saved to disk (an option that's still avail down menus to enter stores, conduct
attack if they realize you're an ore, you've able). There is no waiting for disk access transactions and participate in other ac
got to concentrate on escape, not getting when new text is displayed on the Amiga tivities, The Wilderness area now scrolls
rich quick. version, and little on the 64. (Graphics when you reach the edge, instead of being
The characters play a more important may be turned off to speed up the game displayed one section at a time. Towns are
part in the next two sections, "A Kind of even more.) The disk is not protected, so depicted with full-screen illustrations.
Magic" and "Hordes of the Mountain you can make back-ups of the program. A new layout is used to show your par
King," which cannot be played until Now and then it asks for a word from a 30- ty's character stats during combat, and
you've completed the first two. In order to page novelette (also hilarious) included in your team and the monsters are repre
finish these scenarios (you can move back the manual. sented with precision-detailed and well-
and forth between them), you need the as Illustrations are quickly painted in a animated figures. When a party member
sistance of certain characters. You earn hazy, watercolor style and may be pulled is killed, an ornate cross-shaped tomb
points for recruiting them (top score is a up and down with a joystick or mouse and stone replaces his figure. Sound effects in
whopping 1,000) and for learning each of a cursor that looks like a little wizard. The clude the whooshing of swords and music
21 magic spells, which come in handy in style is original, but not one I'd like to see that accompanies spellcasting. One thing
dealing with people and monsters. As in again. Armed with the smartest parser of that drove me crazy in the original game
Maniac Mansion, some puzzles require the year, Knight Ore presents an enter was that it wouldn't tell me a character
several characters working in unison. To taining bit of role-reversal suitable for was carrying the maximum of nine items

54 FEBRUARY 1988
Adventure Road-
points through successful word-play, using wizard in Rings ofZilfin (Lord Dragosi,
until after I had already tried to give him homonyms (words spelled and pronounced among other mistakes, you may wonder.
something. Now the display tells you if a alike but with different meanings), spoon As a professional winter. I could easily
character has nine items. The program erisms i when you transpose word dream up an excuse for these mistakes.
also permits you to save the status of sev sounds, such as "lunching mobster" and but I'd feel much better by telling you the
eral dungeons instead ofjust one, and it is "munching lobster") and limericks. Upon truth: an ore ate my notes. Actually, that's
super-fast in all respects. discovering a book of riddles and a pile of not quite true. How about this: I was play
For Amiga owners who missed earlier burning foam, for example, you have to ing so many adventures at the time that I
reviews. Phantasie III: Wrath ofNikade- "riddle while foam burns;7 There are a few contracted a rare disease—Dungeon
mus enables you to use characters created traditional logic-puzzles involving objects, Dyslexia—that causes a person to trans
in Phantasie I or roll up six new ones, then but not enough in this lightweight game pose evil wizards from one fantasy with
send them across the continent of Scandor to satisfy hard-core adventurers. A status those from another.
and on to the netherworld to vanquish the bar at the top shows your current location Still not buying it? Well, the last one is
evil Nikademus. (Phantasie II has not and where you can go from there, so you actually close to the truth, which is that
been converted for the Amiga.) The com really don't have to draw a map. Direc while wilting the story I was also complet
bat system adds damage to body parts tions such as east and up are unnecessary, ing a book that required playing 52 ad
(legs, head, etc.) to the traditional system for you just type in the name of the de ventures through to their conclusions in a
of hit points. Author Winston Douglas sired location to reach it. Nord and Bert matter of months. By focusing so intense
Wood emphasized combat over puzzles, offers built-in Invisi-Clues, accessed by ly to maintain accuracy in a collection of
which are in short supply. When you final special menus that appear when you type game solutions, I strained my meager
ly track down Nik, you can either join him "hint." These aspects make Nord and Bert brain (I'm due for an upgrade later this
and fight on the side of evil in the ulti more appealing to novices, but I can only week), and a few bits of data got scram
mate battle or wage war against an army recommend it to those who enjoy word bled in the article, which I didn't spend as
of monsters. It's possible to win either way. games and have a warped sense of humor. much time fine-tuning as I usually do. 11
but easier if you fight him. [Editor's note: was so busy, in fact, that I shouldn't have
See the full review o/"Phantasie I and III What? Me Goof? even accepted the assignment. Note pre
in the Amiga Software Review section J Several people wrote in to point out a vious remark on adventurers' obsession
Like Phantasie III, Infocom's Nord and variety of errors in a feature I did on role- with treasure and gold.) Now that I've
Bert is also short on puzzles. It's a collec playing games a few issues ago. How been made aware of my limitations in this
tion of eight mini-stories that aren't really could an "expert" confuse the villain in regard, you can rest assured I'll never
adventures at all. Instead, you score Shard of Spring (Siriadne) with the evil make another mistak. Qj

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COMMODORE MAGAZINE 55
TECHNICAL TIPS by John lovine

Interfacing
tered. Restart the camera, if you find you don't like the colors or
Commodore's User wish to change them simply return to the main menu as before
and change them.

Port, Part 6 I left an open vector line in 1000 for sub-programs that you
may want to add for pattern recognition and so forth.
Building a Digital Camera, Part 2
Commodore 128 Program Listings
(cont'd) The 128 Main Program is very similiar to the 64 Main Program.
Simply follow these three steps to convert the 64 listing to the
In our January issue, we ran the 64 listings for this article. 128 version:
Following is the 128 version we promised for this month. 1) Delete lines 30,100 and 802
2) Change the following lines:
Program Operation 20 POKE 54,48:POKE 58f48:CLR
Type in the programs for your computer. Take care in saving :REM PROTECT CAP'EXCG
the programs under the proper names. This is essential for the 520 G=PEEK{5461)'CHTD
main program to load the camera programs into memory and 804 POKE 2604,G:GOTO 1000'CLOJ
return.
After you have typed and saved the programs, load and run 3) Add the following lines:
the main program. At the menu prompt choose item 2: "load the 262 POKE 212,88:POKE 208,0'CMRH
b/w camera." The computer will then load the b/w program and 301 LOAD"128 B/W CAM",8'BCPB
return to the main program. Then start the camera, item 7. 401 LOAD"128 GRAY CAM",8'BCXC
After you're satisfied with the b/w camera picture, return to the 507 G=PEEK(5461)'CHTI
main menu by pressing the "R" key. Once there, load the grey 510 POKE 5461,G'BGRB
scale camera, item 3. then start it running. Return to the main 606 J=PEEK(5456):K=PEEK(5772)
menu by pressing "R" again. Now this will take longer to hap :L=PEEK(5804)'GXEP
pen because the keyboard is only checked once per screen scan. 617 POKE 5456,J:POKE 5772,K
Once you're back at the main menu choose the gray timing op :POKE 5804,L'DUYO
tion 5. Change the timing to 50, 60, and 70. The program auto 800 PRINT"[CLEAR]":G = PEEK(2604 )
matically returns to the main menu. Restart the camera. Notice :POKE 2604, (PEEK(2604)AND
240)+12'HCMM
the changes the timing has on the digital camera picture. Re
801 FOR L=55296 TO 56295:POKE L,B:NEXT
turn to the main menu again and chose the coloration option 6.
:SYS 5120'GVGL
The sub-menu lists all color codes as you are prompted for the
coloration of each scan. Choose whatever colors you like, the pro Once these changes are made, resave the program as "128 Main
gram will return automatically after all your choices are en- Prog". D
Bcforc typing this program, read "How Co Enter Programs" am! "How to I se the Magazine 1003 DATA 30 ,3 4,33,37,38,3C,3B,3F'BXGB
Entry Program" 1004 DATA 40 ,00,00,00,00,00,00,00'BXLB
128 B/W Cam 1005 DATA 4C ,0C,4F,0F,50,10,54,14'BXLD
5 TRAP 200'BDEE 1006 DATA 53 ,13,57,17,58,18,5C,1C'BXZE
10 PRINT"[CLEARjPOKING -"j'BBGA 1007 DATA 5B ,1B,5F,1F,60,20,64,24'BXRF
20 P=5039: REM $13AF (END AT 1008 DATA 63 ,23,67,27,68,28,6C,2C'BXHG
5541/$15A5)'CDBF 1009 DATA 6B ,2B,6F,2F,70,30,73,33'BXXH
30 READ A$:IF A$="END"THEN 100'EIRD 1010 DATA 00 ,AD,02,DC,8D,50,13,A9'BXRY
40 PRINT"[HOME,RIGHT12]"P;'BCVC 1011 DATA FF ,8D,03,DD,78,A9,0B,8D'BXDA
50 B=DEC(A$):POKE P,B:T=T+B:P=P+1 1012 DATA 02 ,DC,A9,0B,8D,00,DC,8D'BXGB
:GOTO 30'IUXL 1013 DATA 00 ,DC,A0,00,A9,0B,8D,001BXEC
100 IF TO57222 THEN PRINT"MISTAKE IN 1014 DATA DC ,8C,01,DD,A9,0 9,8D,00'BXVD
DATA -> CHECK DATA STATEMENTS" 1015 DATA DC ,C8,C0,7F,D0,EE,A9,0B'BXVE
:END'GHCK 1016 DATA 8D ,00,DC,EA,EA,EA,EA,EA'BXIF
120 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT"LOAD 1017 DATA EA ,A0,00,A2,00,A9,0B,8D'BXWG
SUCCESSFUL..."'DCAE 1018 DATA 00 ,DC,B9,AF,13,8D,01,DD'BXEH
130 PRINT"[SPACE4]RETURNING TO MAIN 1019 DATA A9 , 09,8D,00,DC,A9,01,8D'BXII
MENU"'BAUF 1020 DATA 00 ,DC,BD,D7,13,09,80,8D'BXEA
140 FOR T=l TO 500:NEXT'EGWC 1021 DATA 01 ,DD,CE,00,DC,A9,08,8D'BXIB
150 CLR'BAFA 1022 DATA 00 ,DC,A9,09,8D,00,DC,E8'BXVC
160 LOAD"128 MAIN PROC'^'BCHF 1023 DATA E0 ,28,D0,E1,A2,00,C8,C0'BXOD
200 PRINT:PRINT"DATA ERROR IN LINE"; 1024 DATA 21 ,D0,CA,A9,00,8 5,FA,85'BXBE
1000 +INT ( (P-5039)/8) :END'HRPI 102 5 DATA FC ,A9,04,8 5,FB,4C,44,15'BXMF
1000 DATA 00,04,03,07,08,0C,0B,0F'BXIX 1026 DATA EA ,A0,00,A2,00,A9,0B,8DrBXWG
1001 DATA 10,14,13,17,18,1C,1B,lF'BXQY 1027 DATA 00 ,DC,BD,AF,13,8D,01,DD'BXPH
1002 DATA 20,24,23,27,28,2C,2Bf2F'BXYA Continued on pg. 58

56 FEBRUARY 1988
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Technical Tips/User Port, Part 6
Continued from pg. 56 1006 DATA 53,13,57,17,58,18,5C,1C'BXZE
1028 DATA A9,09,80,00,00,B9,D7 ,13'BXLI 1007 DATA 5B,1B/5F,1F,60,20,64,24'BXRF
1029 DATA 8D,01,DD,A9,08,8D,00 ,DC'BXVJ 1008 DATA 63,23,67/27,68,28,6C,2C'BXHG
1030 DATA AD,00,00,09,10,D0,60 ,4C'BXBB 1009 DATA 6B,2B,6F,2F,70,30,73,33'BXXH
1031 DATA 60,15,EA,EA,C8,C0,28 /D0'BXPC 1010 DATA 00,AD,02,DC,8D,50,13,A9'BXRY
1032 DATA DF,A0,00,E8,E0,21,F0 ,6A'BXID 1011 DATA FF,8D,03,DD,78,A9,0B,8D'BXDA
1033 DATA A9,0B,8D/00,DC,BD,AF ,13'BXSE 1012 DATA 02,DC,8D,00,DC,A0,00,A91BXCB
1034 DATA 8D,01,DD,A9,09,8D,00 ,DC'BXWF 1013 DATA 06,80,00,DC,8C,01,DD,A9'BXFC
1035 DATA B9,07,13,80,01,DD,A9 ,08'BXMG 1014 DATA 09,8D,00,DC,C8,C0,7F,D0'BXWD
1036 DATA 8D,00,DC,AD,0D,DD,C9 ,10'BXTH 1015 DATA EE,A9,00,85,FA,85,FC,A9'BXBE
1037 DATA D0,34,4C,6C,15,EA,A9 ,01'BXWI 1016 DATA 04,85,FB,EA,A0,00,A2,00'BXHF
1038 DATA 8D,00,DC,C8,C0,28,D0 ,DB'BXHJ 1017 DATA A9,0B,8D,00,DC,BD,AF,13'BXSG
1039 DATA 18,A5,FA,69,28,85,FA ,A9'BXYK 1018 DATA 8D,01,DD,A9,09,8D,00,DC1BXWH
1040 DATA 00,69,00,85,FC,A5,FB ,65'BXSC 1019 DATA A9,01,8D,00,DC,B9,D7,13'BXDI
1041 DATA FC,85,FB,EA,EA,A0,00 ,EA'BXBD 1020 DATA 8D,01,DD,CE,00,DC,A9,08'BXIA
1042 DATA EA,EA/E8,EA,4C,84,14 ,A9'BXKE 1021 DATA 8D,00/DC,EE,00,DC,C8,C0'BXUB
1043 DATA 03,91,FA,4C,A9,14,B1 ,FA'BXPF 1022 DATA 28,D0,E5,A0,00,E8,EE,75tBXHC
1044 DATA C9,03,F0,07,A9,02,91 ,FA'BXNG 1023 DATA 16,AD,75,16,C9,02,D0,C8'BXQD
1045 DATA 4C,DD,14,A9,03,91,FA ,4C'BXUH 1024 DATA A9,00,8D,75,16,8E,74,16rBXVE
1046 DATA DD,14,A9,00,85,FA,85 ,FC'BXDI 1025 DATA EA,EA,EA,A0,00,AE,74,16'BXNF
1047 DATA A9,04,85,FB,AD,50,13 ,8D'BXIJ 1026 DATA CA,CA,A9,0B,8D,00,DC,BD'BXWG
1048 DATA 02,DC,58,4C,80,15,EA ,EA'BXSK 1027 DATA AF,13,8D,01,DD,AD,0D,DD'BXKH
1049 DATA 78,A9,0B,8D,02,DC,4C ,34IBXJL 1028 DATA A9,09,8D,00,DC,B9,D7,13'BXLI
1050 DATA 14,60,8D,00,DC,A0,00 ,A9'BXWD 1029 DATA 8D,01,DD,CE,00,DC,EE,00'BXQJ
1051 DATA 0B,8D,00,DC,A2,CA,CA ,D0'BXWE 1030 DATA DC,AD,0D,DD,C9,10,D0,47'BXWB
1052 DATA FD,C8,AD,0D,DD,C0f19 /D0tBXQF 1031 DATA 4C,29,15,EA,C8,C0,28,D0tBXFC
1053 DATA F3,EA,EA,8D,00,DC,4C ,7F'BXVG 1032 DATA E4,A0,00,E8,E0,21,F0,4B'BXPD
1054 DATA 14,A9,00,91,FA,A9,01 ,8D'BXLH 1033 DATA A9,0B,8D,00,DC,BD,AF,13'BXSE
1055 DATA 00,DC,4C,A9,14,B1,FA ,C9'BXFI 1034 DATA 8D,01,DD,AD,0D,DD,A9,09'BXCF
1056 DATA 03,D0,07,A9,01,91,FA ,4C'BXFJ 1035 DATA 8D,00,DC,B9,D7,13,8D,01'BXFG
1057 DATA DC,14,A9,00,91,FA,4C ,DC'BXHK 1036 DATA DD,CE,00,DC,EE,00,DC,AD'BXNH
1058 DATA 14,A5,D4,C9,58/F0,0C ,C9'BXML 1037 DATA 0D,DD,C9,10,D0,18,4C,30'BXUI
1059 DATA 2C,F0,0B,C9,2F,F0,0D ,C91BXJM 1038 DATA 15,EA,C8,C0,28,D0,DC,4C'BXIJ
1060 DATA 11,F0,0F,4C,37,15/EE ,55'BXNE 1039 DATA 44,15,EA,EA,EA,EA,EA,A9'BXGK
1061 DATA 15,4C,37,15,CE,55,15 ,4C'BXAF 1040 DATA 03,91,FA,4C,AA,14,B1,FA'BXXC
1062 DATA 37,15,4C,40/15,FF,13 1041 DATA C9,03,F0,04,A9,02,91,FA'BXKD
END'BYRG 1042 DATA 4C,E0,14,A9,00,85,FA,85'BXQE
1043 DATA FC,A9,04,85,FB,AD,50,13'BXVF
128 Gray Cam 1044 DATA 8D,02,DC,58,A5,D4,C9,58'BXUG
5 TRAP 200'BDEE 1045 DATA F0,03,4C,B7,16,78,A9,0B1BXPH
10 PRINT"[CLEAR]POKING -";'BBGA 1046 DATA 8D,02,DC,4C,33,14,60,4C'BXII
20 P=5039: REM $13AF (END AT 1047 DATA B7,16,A9,02,91,FA,4C,AA'BXRJ
5858/S16E2)'CDOF 1048 DATA 14,B1,FA,C9,02,F0,07,A9'BXYK
30 READ AS:IF A$="END"THEN 100'EIRD 1049 DATA 01,91,FA,4C,E0,14,A9,001BXBL
40 PRINT"[H0ME,RIGHT12]"P;'BCVC 1050 DATA 91,FA,4C,E0,14,8E,74,16'BXVD
50 B=DEC(A$):POKE P,B:T=T+B:P=P+1 1051 DATA A0,00,A2,CA,CA,D0,FD,C8'BXXE
:GOTO 30'IUXL 1052 DATA C0,07,D0,F6,AE,74,16,A0'BXXF
100 IF TO94302 THEN PRINT"MISTAKE IN 1053 DATA 00,4C,6A,15,C8,C0,0F,D0'BXQG
DATA -> CHECK DATA STATEMENTS" 1054 DATA EF,8E,00,DC,A0,00,4C,7AtBXBH
:END'GHCK 1055 DATA 14,EA,EA,A0,00,CA,A9,0B'BXEI
110 PRINT"[HOME]";'BBFV 1056 DATA 8D,00,DC,BD,AF,13,8D,01'BXDJ
120 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT"LOAD 1057 DATA DD,AD,0D,DD,A9,09,8D,00'BXBK
SUCCESSFUL..."'DCAE 1058 DATA DC,B9,D7,13,8D,01,DD,CE'BXHL
130 PRINT"[SPACE4]RETURNING TO MAIN 1059 DATA 00,DC,EE,00,DC,AD,0D,DD1BXSM
MENU"'BAUF 1060 DATA C9,10,D0,03,4C,3C,16,C81BXHE
140 FOR T=l TO 500:NEXT'EGWC 1061 DATA C0,28,D0,E5,A0,00,E8,A9'BXXF
150 CLR'BAFA 1062 DATA 0B,8D,00,DC,BD,AF,13,8D'BXUG
160 LOAD"128 MAIN PR0G",8'BCHF 1063 DATA 01,DD,AD,0D,DD,A9,09,8D'BXCH
200 PRINT:PRINT"DATA ERROR IN LINE"; 1064 DATA 00,DC,B9,D7,13,8D,01,DD'BXRI
1000 + INT( (P-5039J/8):END'HRPI 1065 DATA CE,00,DC,EE,00,DC,AD,0D'BXSJ
1000 DATA 00,04,03,07,08,0C,0B,0F'BXIX 1066 DATA DD,C9,10,D0,03,4C,4C,16IBXVK
1001 DATA 10,14,13,17,18,1C,1B,1F'BXQY 1067 DATA C8,C0,28,D0,E5,EA,EA,EE'BXVL
1002 DATA 20,24,23,27,28,2C,2B/2F1BXYA 1068 DATA 70,16,AD,70,16,C9,01,F0'BXRM
1003 DATA 30,34,33,37,38,3C,3B,3F'BXGB 1069 DATA 09,C9,02,F0,1A,C9,03,F0'BXIN
1004 DATA 40,00,00,00,00,00,00,00'BXLB 1070 DATA 2B,EA,A9,80,8D,61,16,A9'BXLF
1005 DATA 4C,0C/4F,0F/50,10,54/14'BXLD Continued on pg. 60

58 FEBRUARY 1988
 CALIFORNIA GAMES.

STATE OF INTENSITY.

lv

j&^It afrit beach blanket bingo. Surfing A sjiort Invented by-

h(df-Kakcd'Bn\jzais with a fondues sfor-
These are radi ripping, grinding, and shreddin,

cal games. Games

that take the
honorable
tradition of
Summer
_ Games'I and
>T II, Winter Games? and World
Games? wax it down and load
it on the roof.
Try shredding the face of a
totally tubular wave. Join the
airforce in a BMX bike race.
Screech around on skates
and then rocket off the
skateboard ramp.
You'll be playing
BMX When
of champions.. for sponsors like
I Ocean Pacific, NHS
Santa Cruz, CASIO, Costa
Del Mar, Kawasaki, and Launch a few feet oft'-tke-lib urilh your
skateboard tucked hjgk Andh-hileyou're
Spinjammer. For trophies up there, dance for the crowd.

and an overall championship.

So get air. Go crazy. California gamesbyt
Welcome to the state,
Slalom !lir boardwalk obstacle course of California.
mi rollerskates.
Cammodan 64/128. Apple !!<& Compatibles. IBM& Compatibles. Amiga

SEE GAME BOX FOR DETAILS ON INSTANT WINNER CONTEST.

 Technical Tips/User Port, Part 6
Continued from pg. 58
1071 DATA 81,8D,5A,16,A9,82,8D,46'BXQG
1072 DATA 16,80,53,16,4C,80,16,A9'BXPH
1073 DATA C0,8D,61,16,A9,C1,8D,5A'BXII
1074 DATA 16,A9,C2,8D,46,16,8D/53'BXLJ
1075 DATA 16,4C,A0,16,A9,40,8D,61'BXUK
1076 DATA 16,A9,41,8D,5A/16,A9/42'BXDL
1077 DATA 80,46,16,80,53f16,A9,00'BXPM
1078 DATA 8D,70,16,18,A5,FA,69,28'BXNN
1079 DATA 85,FA,A9,00,69,00,85,FC'BXXO
1080 DATA A5,FB,65,FC,85,FB,A0,00'BXKG
1081 DATA E8,4C,37,14,EA,B1,FA,C91BXRH
1082 DATA 03,F0,03,4C,96,15,A9,42'BXFI
1083 DATA 91,FA,4C,96,15,B1,FA,C9'BXFJ
1084 DATA 03,F0,07,C9,42,F0,0A,4C'BXEK
1085 DATA C7,15,A9,41,91,FA,4C,C7'BXML
1086 DATA 15,A9,40,91,FA,4C,C7,15'BXQM
1087 DATA EA,00,FF,00,FF,00,FF,00'BXVN
1088 DATA FF,00,00,00,00,22,00,00'BXFN
1089 DATA 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00'BXHO
1090 DATA 00,8E,74,16,A0,00,A2,CA'BXUH
1091 DATA CA,D0,FD,C8,C0,1C,D0,F6'BXNI
1092 DATA AE,74,16,A0,00,4C,6A,15'BXBJ
1093 DATA 00,FF,00,FF,00,FF,00,FF'BXCK
1094 DATA 00,8E,74,16,A0,00,A2,CA'BXUL
1095 DATA CA,D0,FD,C8,C0,48,D0,F6IBXFM
1096 DATA AE,74,16,A0,00,4C,6A,15'BXBN
1097 DATA A5,D4,C9,2C,F0,0C,C9,2F'BXOO
1098 DATA F0,14,C9,11,D0,01,60,4C'BXIP
1099 DATA 1C,15,EE,50,15,EE,8C,16'BXGQ
1100 DATA EE,AC,16,4C,1C,15,CE,50'BXFV
1101 DATA 15,CE,8C,16,CE,AC,16,4C'BXMA
1102 DATA 1C,15,EA,EA,END'BPOY END

Rush 'n Attack/Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Continued from pg. 20 timate the importance of approaching ther examination, then the marvelously
creasing strength have been incorporated. each match with a premeditated plan of detailed, high-res screen representations
But this game assumes its own flavor by attack. Although the opponents will be on the box's back would surely draw some
hastening the tempo of the on-screen con come more skilled as the rounds progress, positive attention. There are four different
flicts, presenting a contest where reflex re each enemy fighter does have his own shots shown, each a stunning example of
actions take precedence over strategic built-in weakness-an individual flaw graphic excellence. Unfortunately, what
planning. In Yie Ar Kung-Fu, he who which can be exploited if spotted. Even in you see is not what you get. The game
hesitates will lose. defeat, if a player can find this soft spot, screens that the package presents are not
Your joystick-controlled character is Oo then he has uncovered a necessary secret from the Commodore version of the con
long. He is on a personal quest to attain to advancement, a revelation that will test at all. but rather are unlabeled photos
the immortal glory of the Kung-Fu Grand only make him hit the reset button that of screens taken directly from its coin-op
Master, a level of martial ails adeptness much quicker. predecessor. No wonder they're so impres
that requires training, tenacity and above Yie Ar Kung-Fu certainly delivers some sive! Yet nowhere inside or outside the box
all, speed. Your opponents are a deadly genuine arcade kicks, but with all the is this fact noted. In fairness to Konami,
cast who will use every imaginable kick, competition for martial arts thrills these they are not the only software publisher
punch and weapon combination to cut you days, it would have been tough for this guilty of this practice. But it's a bad habit
down. If you're not familial1 with such le late arrival to have survived on its own. to pick up, especially for a relative new
thal fighting implements as the nun- Offered as a flip side extra, however, it comer who is trying to build audience
chaka. bo, tonfiin and shuriken, then a presents Konami with an attractive two- trust} and it can turn out to be self defeat
rude lesson awaits you, for your challeng for-one package, granting consumers ac ing as well, since the visuals in the Com
ers will be happy to resort to all kinds of cess to an excellent challenge that they modore version, which are good to begin
sticks and stones to break your bones. might have otherwise overlooked. with, inevitably pale when placed next to
Tb move into an offensive stance, Oo Before I close, if 1 could have a moment the graphics of a more powerful machine.
long can jump, duck or walk left or right. to step up on my soapbox. 1 would like to Boo! Hiss.
Once within striking distance, he has ten point out the one disappointment I have If we can put this beef behind us and
attack moves at his disposal, like flying with this package: an annoyance that concentrate on the quality found inside
kicks, leg sweeps and lunge punches, all of happens to touch the nerve of my pet the box, then we have struck gold. Rush'n
which are initiated by a joystick tug or peeve. If a potential customer walked into Attack and Yie Ar Kung-Fu are a dynam
joystick/fire button combination. Again I a software dealership to browse around ic duo that stand as undeniable evidence
will note that speed is the key to success and was interested enough in this Kon to Konami's ability to consistently please
in this game, but one should not underes ami product to pull it off the shelf for fur their growing arcade audience. g

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Inside Q-Iink
Explore the inner workings of the
Q-Link telecommunication
service with network pro
Bob Baker.

In the past I've talked about the on-line

E-Mail service a few times, with a few
hints thrown in from time to time. Well
after the tutorial on the message board
editor back in the December column, a
few people were asking about the E-Mail
editor. Unfortunately, the editor used for
entering your E-Mail messages is no
where near as sophisticated as the mes Then simply enter the new text as desired. Tb answer an E-Mail message is really
sage board editor. Hopefully, a later gen When entering your message, keep in simple, you don't even have to remember
eration of Q-Link software will provide us mind that you are limited to a small num the user id if answering a message just re
with something much nicer. ber of lines in each message. It's not al ceived. While the message is displayed on
For now, when you're entering E-Mail ways a good idea to space out lines if you your screen, just press F7. A short two-line
messages you actually only have editing know before-hand that your message will menu will appear that allows you to di
capabilities within the current line that is be long. If you run out of room, you can al rectly answer the current message or save
still in the input buffer. The input buffer is ways continue your text in a follow-up that message onto disk. The normal F3
the single line that appears at the bottom message. The only real problem is that feature for saving text to disk elsewhere
of your screen. Once you press the RE you do not get any warning before you on the system does not function when pro
TURN key, that line is entered in the reach the maximum limit. At that point cessing E-Mail.
message and cannot be touched again. If it's too late to add a continuation message; When you use this method of answering
you notice a mistake in a previous line, you'll just have to handle it in the next a message, you don't have to enter any
the only thing you can do is add a short message. thing other than the desired text. The
comment to point out the correction. I Just be careful not to press the RE user id is entered automatically for you by
usually do this in parenthesis to separate TURN key too hard or hit it more than the system. If you need to send more than
it from the normal text. once as you type in your message. Enter one message to that user, you can use the
While there is text in your input buffer, ing a RETURN without any text in the same option over and over again to send
you can always use the cursor key to re input buffer terminates your message. If any number of response messages to the
turn anywhere in the line to replace or in this happens by accident, don't panic. currently displayed E-Mail message. The
sert text. You can also use the DEL key to Simply start another message to the same options of answering or saving to disk will
remove the last typed character as well. If person and continue where your text left always be available until you go back and
you position the cursor back within the off. The messages will show up as separate delete the displayed message using the Fa
text, any new characters you enter will messages, but they should be received key when the message is displayed.
overwrite the existing text from that right behind each other. Hopefully this Well, enough about E-Mail and editors.
point. This is different from the normal in shouldn't be a problem for the person re I think we've pretty much beat those to
sert mode of the message board editor, ceiving the message. pics to death by now, so how about a look
where new text is inserted at the cursor On the receiving end, if you get a mes at some of the services added to Q-Link in
position and the text that follows is moved sage that appears to be cut off in the mid past months—the On-line Librarian and
down and kept intact. dle of a thought, go back up to the top of the TVade Plus Investment Service.
If you want to insert text somewhere the message and jot down the user id of The On-line Librarian was added to the
back in the middle of existing text, you the person the message is Irani. Then can Learning Center this past fall. The Li
have to use the INSERT key to make cel that message by pressing the F5 key, brarian staff will attempt to provide an
room for the new characters before they're and read the next waiting E-Mail mes swers to reference questions on all sorts of
entered. If you try to insert too many char sage. It may be a continuation of the pre topics posted on the "Ask the Librarian"
acters, the right end of the message will vious message, and you can answer that message board. Answers will usually be
stop moving when it gets to the end of the message when done reading it. posted within 48 hours, Monday through
input buffer line. The only solution is to The reason I suggested writing down Friday. If you have a private question, you
either type over the remaining part of the the user id of the first message, was just in can ask your question via E-Mail to
line, or go to the end of the line and delete case there is no following message from QLibrarian instead.
enough characters to make the text fit. the same user. You'll at least have their If you're looking for a good book or need
If things look hopeless, you can always user id and can generate a response mes help with a question for a school report,
press the CLR/HOME key and erase the sage to let them know you didn't receive a you should be able to get help here. You
entire input buffer line with one stroke. complete message. Continued on pg. 93

62 FEBRUARY 1988
 An open letter to
the readers of Commodore
Richard Olsen
President: The Ennon Corporation
My purpose in writing is to ask This would benefit everyone in the for the micro. Their extensive, easy
you to join me in shaping the long run. to understand commands walk you
future of the new and most unusual I have met with little success. through the source code
field in computer technology today: step by step. It's suprisingly simple.
Apparently, it seems that immediate
Artifical Intelligence. Even the beginner can understand
corporate profit is more important
This incredible power and the "How and Why of A.I."
than sharing technology with the
spectacular creative potential are A Fantastic Savings
available to you, for your computer public. Therefore, the Ennon The real profit to Ennon
right now. However, there is an Corporation stands alone in offering Corporation will be vour
alarming possibility that such superior Artificial Intelligence participation in the future of
amazing technology which you programming directly to the home Artifical Intelligence. Therefore, 1
have every right to, may not be computer enthusiast. am pleased to say nobody will miss
available to you other that through Announcing AN-83: this chance because they could not
this offer. afford it. AN-83 is priced to cover
The "Thinking" Program
This is unfortunate but somewhat just a fraction of its research and
Believe me when I say AN-83 is
understandable due to the way developmental costs.
the real thing, It is a true "thinking"
technology is created. You see, only The "Thinking" Program AN-83 is
the business oriented corporation program that receives an initial just S23.57. What's more, the
can finance research. It therefore is "knowledge base" from a data file astounding Eliza is yours, absolutely
in a position to dictate immediate read when AN-83 is started. Using free.
research goals. These goals are inductive and deductive logical 1 guess it's obvious that I want
increasing profits through more analysis, this amazing program you to participate in the future of
efficient production, While valid, deduces everything from that data Artificial Intelligence. Forgive my
they are merely creative and do and adds it to its memory.
excitement and enthusiasm but I
absolutely nothing to foster just know you are going to be very
Conversing with you. AN-83 adds
exploration in new applications. The happy and impressed that such
and combines with facts already
result: technology is never used to things could be done with your
its fullest potential. But what's worst known. It generates new computer. You just won't believe it.
of all is lhat these competitive conclusions not explicitly contained Please take this opportunity now.
corporations have absolutely no in its original knowledge base—just Simply fill out your coupon below
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each other, let alone with you. So, result: it knows considerably more such a wonderful future of
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infinitesimal amount of technology AN-83 can also think about awaits you.
that finally trickles down to you is:
anything. It is virtually unlimited in With the very best of wishes,
A. So expensive you are pro
its application. Think of your
hibited from procurring it possibilities. The potential is
B. Shamefully inferior to the limitless. In the right hands. AN-83 Richard Olsen
real thing
would revolutionize the adventure,
remember..you can buy high-tech strategy and other smart game-
consumer goods, but never the
LJ Please send me the
playing programs to say nothing of
"Thinking" Program AN—83
technology that creates it. classic arcade games. On the other
for only S23.57.
This same situation confronts hand, AN-83 could be one of the
In addition. I will receive
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 Tips & Tricks/Amiga
Continued from pg. 18
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As Commodore users, we have access to the world's exciting software. You responded so enthusiastically
largest and best assortment of commercial game that we had to print even more. So here, in alphabetical
programs. In August, this magazine's "Tips & Tricks" order, is the world's largest and best compendium of
section featured 25 hints for conquering some of that game-playing and game-beating tips.

>ecause so many programs are involved, these tips have not Alternate Reality: The grid begins in the bottom left-hand cor
had our normal extensive testing — they're presented just ner of the map, at IN,IE. It moves up for north and to the right
as the readers submitted them. for east. Here are the coordinates of all the guilds: 35N.44E;
When pondering some of the more "unusual" (cowardly?) 48N.19E; 5N,3E; 43N.12E; 15N.48E; 22N,34E: 12N.28E:
ways of prolonging play or achieving higher scores, please also 60N.51E: 50N.62E; 50N,58E: 15N,6E; 3N.56E. Beware of
ponder these famous and time-tested words: "He who fights and Death Traps at 5N.42E and 7N.48E. The Alpha Omega Healer
runs away, lives to fight another day!" isat21N,5E.
The game doesn't decide what a potion is until it is unsealed,
Aliens: 1b get past the Alien Queen on the Newt Rescue Race, so save a character to two disks (character disk #1 and backup
just turn to the right and fire. When the queen turns right to disk #2) when he has three or more potions. Each time you load
protect her eggs, run upward while still firing. This will take at the character, he will have different potions. If you don't like the
least 22 rounds. potions, backup the disks until they suit you.
Robert Grzeseh If you're out of money and low on hit points, head for the
Diamond Bar. California North City wall in the NW quadrant. The water is free,
and water and food packets don't come any cheaper.
Aliens: Here's a list of some useful codes: Mike Filloon
To land the ship 2727H Bismarck, North Dakota
To get to the flame thrower 1506E
To get to the air vents 2761G Attack of the Mutant Camels: My niece and
Ripley to rescue Newt 7128E nephew discovered an interesting way to beat this
Fighting alien in ship 7103F game. While one plays, the other holds down the
Michael McDermott cursor right key until the player is in serious
Tucson. Arizona danger of losing a life. A quick tap or two
at the F3 key will usually advance the
Aliens: Simultaneously pressing "P", "(5 ",' ■*" and RESTORE game to the next level, often giving bonus
will advance you to the next screen. points or an extra life.
Myong Paek Susan A. Juliana
Portland, Oregon Ripley. New York

Alternate Reality: When you stall a new character, attack only Attack of the Mutant Camels: To skip
the evil creatures in a city (if you attack the good, they'll soon zones in this difficult game, simultaneously hold down
become your enemiesi. From morning to evening, your usual the SHIFT and COMMODORE keys. While they ate down,
enemies are muggers and thieves. The evil creatures usually also depress STOP. While still holding the previous three, press
come out at night or when it is raining. When you're weak. CONTROL. The game will inform you that the zone has been
check into an inn to restore your hit points. Beware of poison cleared, and you'll move up to the next one.
and disease from potions of the evil creatures. Poison gradually Robert Rovinsky
drains your hit points and disease drains your character stats. Duluth. Minnesota
Robert Wu
Monterey Park. California

66 FEBRUARY 1988
AutoDuel: If your car is stopped when driving to a city, but the
driver isn't killed, save and quit the game. When you re-boot,
your car will be in the last city you were in. Now you can fix the
car without losing it, or, if you must, you can sell it at the salvage
yard.
Troy Nesfeder
Bethlehem. Pennsylvania

AutoDuel: If your power plant or weapons are destroyed in the Beach Head: When the computer
middle of an Arena Battle, save your game by pressing "Q" for asks you for a skill level and number of
Quit. When you resume the game, you'll be at the truck stop of players, wait for about 30 seconds without touching
your city, with your car in the condition it was when you quit. the keyboard or joystick. The computer will start playing by it
CarlPrichard self in a demonstration mode. Let it play until it reaches the
Address Unknown screen you want to by, then take control by moving the joystick.
Stephen Bertrand
Aztec: You can begin the game near the idol if you follow these PotUiboro, Texas
steps: At the game's start, go completely over to the left wall
without touching it. then drop a piece of dynamite. Climb Beach Head: When it's time to set your skill level, press the let
down the stairs and place a stick of dynamite by the left wall. ter "F' instead of selecting a level. You'll get a special screen for
Walk through the hole made in the wall by the previous step. setting the sound filter settings, which you change by using the
The idol will be somewhere nearby on your level. You may find function keys. By creative experimentation you can change
it useful to get a machete or extra dynamite before starting this from very high rifle shot sounds to an almost inaudible low-level
procedure. rumble.
Kevin Sivanson Stephen Legate
Glen Burnie. Maryland Address Unknown

The Bard's Tale II: Always complete all seven levels for your Beach Head: On the fourth board, when you shoot a tower, a
magic user, then copy your magic user to a backup disk. You'll score will appear. For big points, keep shooting at the score it
soon have an army of magic users on that disk. Be sure to keep self, especially on the moving towers.
changing the magic user's name or he won't save. When your Michael Baumgart
party has to open a chest, always have a member number 4-7 Address Unknown
open it, since they cannot be hurt like 0-4 members.
Troy Nesfeder Beach Head: During the stage when you are shooting down air
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania planes, a small blimp floats by even' once in a while. Get your
ammunition meter all the way full, then shoot down the blimp
The Bard's Tale II: Tb get a lot of experience points, advance a and keep the fire button depressed. You'll get 2000 points each
conjurer to spell level four. Then summon four wolves and re time you hit the exploded blimp. It will disappear after a second
move all but one character. Go into the wilderness, find a build or so, but I've gotten as many as 40,000 points per blimp. 'This
ing and repeatedly enter and leave it. You'll find lots of monsters principle is reported to work with other targets in Beach Head
to battle, more gold, and lots of experience points for your char as well. Ed.)
acter. Let the wolves do all the work. Joby Taylor
Allen Morano Amarillo, Texas
Address Unknown
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein: If you get killed, caught or blown
The Bard's Tale II: You don't have to pass the battle test in Dar- up, but don't want to start over, just wait for the gray screen to
goth's Tower to receive the Sword of Zar. Just go to the Maze of appear then hit RUN-STOP and RESTORE. Then type RUN
Dread and teleport to 15 North and 10 East. The answer to the and press RETURN. Be ready to go with your joystick, because
riddle is RED spelled backwards. you'll be put right back into the action before your tragedy took
Troy Nies place.
Mandan, South Dakota ■Jayson Olson
Address Unknown
The Bard's Tale II: In any dungeon, you can avoid encountering
monsters by removing the Dungeon disk and inserting the Boot Beyond Forbidden Forest: It is safer to keep moving when bat
disk. This is very useful when you're mapping a difficult dun tling the worms (Vermes). When battling the Megatherium,
geon level. move left to right, shooting him the second you see him.
Eric Blais JeffLohmeier
Quebec, Canada Ferndale, Michigan

68 FEBRUARY 1988
Blue Max: This is one of the more difficult games for the 64. If Championship Baseball: Can you imagine a game with 20 runs
you hit as many special targets as you can. whatever the cost, and only five hits? When you have men on base and the comput
you'll advance to the higher levels more quickly. er's pitcher is winding up, just freeze the game with the F5 key.
Stephen Legate Then you're free to walk your runners in to score, without any
Los Alamos, New Mexico body to stop you! To resume normal play, just press the F7 key.
Robert Wu
Bop 'N Wrestle; Walk right up to your opponent, grab him and Monterey Park, California
give him a head butt. While he's staggering, give him a quick
kick and do it again. Repeat this until his energy's depleted then Colonial Conquest: Russia's armies are extremely cheap, and
give him the finishing move of your choice. you'll be able to conquer a lot of land with them alone.
Chris A. Bonk Lance Gater
GLenavon, Saskatchewan Trenton, New Jersey
Canada
Commando: When you get to the end of the third level, stay
Boulderdash: For immunity from Flies, enter POKE 29004.96. next to the side of the door and start Bring toward the door. Any
For unlimited time. POKE 29885.96. For an unlimited number body who comes through that door will be instantly destroyed.
of lives. POKE 35589.96. Start the game with SYS 36431. Myong Paek
Lucy S. Terrier Portland. Oregon
Alton. Illinois
Commando: At the end of the first level, open the doors, stand
Bounty Bob Strikes Back: On level one after collecting the at the corner of the right door, face left and open fire. You'll com
flower pot, press F7 to warp to level seven. On level five after col plete the level safely and easily. For the third level, grenade the
lecting the coffee pot, press F7 to warp to level eight. You can top two men in the fortress, stand at the comer of the right wall,
continue this after every fourth level. face left and fire continually. You'll win the game every time.
Ernest Bonhomme Nathan Gibbs
New York, New York Fernandina Beach, Florida

Bruce Lee: In the first room with the red background, there's an Conan: On the first level do not kill the bat. Climb to the veiy
orange spot between the explosive and the black box on the ceil top on the right side and jump in the tree. Run and jump against
ing. Jump on it and you will be safe from anything. the castle, walk all the way right and pull down. This will give
Marshall Evans you an extra man.
Address Unknown Nathan Gibbs
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Bruce Lee: You can get points very quickly by dropping on top
of the black Ninja several times in succession. Decathlon: You cramp-handed runners of the 1500 meters need
Chris Beyer worry no more. You can beat the computer in the sprint part by
Address Unknown pausing the game when he first starts to sprint. When you start
again, the computer will run slowly but you can splint. When
Castle Wolfenstein: For a miraculous escape, maneuver your done correctly, this will give you a world record.
self to the bottom of the screen and unplug your joystick. Plug Paul Jordan
your paddles into Port 2 and press both buttons simultaneously. Glenwood, Illinois
The screen will change to a castle and drawbridge with a full
moon, and you will be outside! It works even- time. Elite: If you have trouble shouting at distant enemy ships,
J. P. Julian just use the target missile function to aim at the ship. When ♦
Address Unknown you hear the beep, start blasting away with your lasers.
Myong Paek
Castle Wolfenstein: When your man dies or is caught, or if you Portland, Oregon
want to reset a room, just hit RUN STOP and RESTORE simul
taneously. When the screen clears and the READY prompt ap F-15 Strike Eagle; If your fuel runs out, just press the
pears, quickly type SYS 2068 and press RETURN. You'll be "A" key (Afterburners command) repeatedly.
back in the same room, but alive. With each press, you'll hear a ''poof1 sound
Sander Hicks and your speed will increase. Appar
Falls Church, Virginia ently the afterburners cut in for an
instant before the game figures out
Castles of Doctor Creep: You've no doubt heard the soundtrack that you're out of fuel. The faster
in the demo mode of this game, but did you know there are eight you press the key, the faster
more songs on the disk? To hear them, start a game then end it. your speed and altitude will
(The quickest way is to hit RESTORE while the map screen is increase. It's a bit tiresome, but
upl. The demo mode will start again, but this time it will load it beats crashing into the earth.
the next song. Just keep up this process to hear them all. Bob Keller
Jon Demk San Ramon, California
Monessen, Pennsylvania Continued on pg. 116

COMMODORE M/£AZINE 69
Software
"Fan"atics bv John Jermaine

y quest for the perfect microcom

puter feature has led me on many
unusual expeditions, but I always seem to
make the same mistake. Most of my work
is too serious in nature. Tb remedy this,
here is a lighthearted collection of fan-re
lated stories that have taken place deep
within the Commodore 64 software indus
try. You won't hear tales of programmers
having their clothes ripped off by crazed
game groupies, but I think you'll find
these tales amusing, entertaining and sol
id proof that even software people are hu
man too. By the way, most of the names in
this feature have been dropped to protect
the guilty.
Special Fans Hooked On The Game over to play the game, they gave him in
Noreen Lovoi, Public Relations Man Debbie Minardi, Customer Service Rep formation about each situation that arose,
ager for Epyx, Inc.: "When you talk about resentative at Electronic Arts: '"During Oc he made his own decisions, and someone
software Tan'atics, two significant stories tober of 1986 two young followers of would input that data into the system.
come to mind. Several years ago, a young Bard's Tale had an interesting experience. Isn't it strange that a microcomputer
male fan wrote us a note that immediate The Customer Service department of game could bring friends closer together
ly caught my eye. This seven- or eight- Electronic Aits provides Bard's Tale game under these unusual circumstances?
year-old individual wanted to create a hints for users who call in to request A large number of letters state that con
comic strip featuring the little guy from them. Jason and Jordan from New York sumers in the field have made their own
our popular Jumpman program, and he were calling me every day for new Bard's pictures for the Strip Poker game, but
knew enough about the laws of the land to Tale clues. About six weeks later, I re found they couldn't insert their graphics
ask permission to use the character. Un ceived a call from a mysterious gentleman into the program. When the game was ini
fortunately we couldn't honor his request, inquiring who we were and what we did tially being created, we were afraid of
but it illustrates the fact that even our here. He had just received a S300 phone someone trying this stunt. I envisioned a
younger followers have more knowledge bill, and the EA number appeared promi clever young hacker, somewhere out
than we give them credit for. nently on his billing sheets. At this point there, putting some very distasteful pic
"My second tale takes place about a in the conversation, I asked him if his tures within the framework of our pro
year after Summer Games hit the market. children had a copy ofBard's Tale, and of gram. Once that was done, pirate copies of
Epyx received a very nice letter from a course he replied they did. I decided to his creation would be distributed far and
teenaged admirer who really enjoyed take a chance and find out if Jason and wide, and eventually the public would be
Summer Games and wanted us to gener Jordan were his children. It's a strange under the impression that Artworx was
ate a sequel to it. He also included an in world; he did have a couple of kids with getting into the pornography business. Tb
spirational list containing the names of those names. The man suddenly went into prevent such a catastrophe from happen
every sport and athletic event known to shock because he realized his children had ing, we decided to disperse the graphic
man. It was an amazing coincidence, but spent over $250 calling long-distance to data throughout the program, making it
our design team was hard at work on request hints for solving a computer difficult to see where all of that informa
Summer Games 2 at the time. Some of the game. I told him they would probably tion is stored.
programmers thought the existence of the complete their quest in a day or so. at the A recent Strip Pofter-oriented phone
list could possibly cause problems at a lat rate they were progressing. He laughed call caught one of the secretaries by sur
er date, since all of the events for the new for a moment and said they might not live prise. A follower of the game wanted to
game were listed on the sheet. This meant that long. Thinking back on the incident, know if we had ever thought about using
that the author of the note might claim I remember unconsciously adding insult digitized pictures of real people as the ba
our people didn't pay him for certain ideas to injury by telling him a Bard's Tale clue sis for a new series of Strip Poker data
and information he supposedly brought to book was available for S12.95. Later that disks. We are currently developing a pro
their attention. Someone finally asked for same afternoon, Jason and Jordan called ject of that nature, so the secretary in
some legal advice on the matter and was again to tell me they had just completed formed him of our plans. Before she could
advised not to worry about the list. Sum the game. I didn't have the heart to tell get out another word, the guy had offered
mer Games 2 was completed as planned, them the fate that awaited them when to send us nude photos of his wife and
and we never heard from our their father got home." himself for the project. I don't know how
admirer again." our representative handled the situation,
Strip Poker Players but I'm glad I didn't have to explain to
Arthur Walsh, President ofArtworx: this fellow why we couldn't accept his 'gen
"Artworx's Strip Poker program has been erous' offer."
the prime source of many fan letters and
phone calls for the past several years. Adventure Game Experiences
Some time ago, a guy wrote to us to say Scott Adams, adventure game pro
Strip Poker was his favorite computer pro grammer: "The most notable piece of mail
gram, and people came over all I've received to date came from a group of
the time to play it. This fans who were trying to solve my Adven
^ in itself wasn't so un ture Land text game. Tb set things up for
usual, but I guess I for- this interesting tale, you need to under
/ got to tell you that the stand how one of these early adventure
gentleman was blind. programs operated. The computer would
His friends came print out a text situation on the screen,
and the participant responded by typing
in a two-word command like 'Go North'
or 'Get rock.' What the player didn't
know was the fact that the interpreter of
the program only recognized the first
three letters of each word the user
typed in as a response. Getting
back to Adventure Land, the
player encounters a bear in
the game that he must get rid of. Logical item. You might expect the letters from
ly I reasoned you would have to scream or "The man went into shock these software sleuths to start out with
yell to get a bear moving. The computer something like 'Guess what 1 found in
needs to see the 'scr' of 'scream' or the 'yel' when he realized his children your game, you stupid people,' but most of
of'yell' to activate the next line of the ad- them expressed the excitement of the
ventui"e. Anyway, our followers had been
had spent over $250 calling user, where he or she had discovered an
working on the problem of moving the long-distance to request aspect of the program that none of us
bear for a long time, but they weren't knew anything about."
making much progress. Finally out of des hints for solving Bard's Tale.
peration, one of those tormented souls
typed in 'Screw Bear." The computer re
Avalon Hill Confronts The Public
Jackson Dott, Director of Microcomputer
plied 'Bear is so startled he falls off the the player had to literally attack the
Art at Avalon Hill Games: "It's been an in
ledge.' This note kept us in stitches for beam in a certain way. To make this com
teresting experience to sit back and watch
several hours." ponent of the game respond properly, we
how the public reacts to some of our ideas.
Dace Lebling, Program Author at Info- had to add a special bit to the program
In 1985, for example, one of our largest
corn; "Naturally we receive tons of mail code. It simply told the computer that the
mid-west distributors told us to remove all
and a large number of phone calls re light beam was attackable. Unfortunately
of our products from his inventory which
questing adventure game hints, but a new a quirk in the development system we
contained fantasy role playing, magical
breed of fan is searching our work for bugs were using simultaneously stated that the
creatures, spell casting, etc. We believe
that we haven't detected. Infocom play beam was also a person. This new develop
this incident occurred because of local
testers spend countless hours searching ment presented a unique problem for the
pressure from religious groups in the area.
for bugs in each product, but our little computer because it couldn't locate the
beam of light's personality data which "A Russian Counsel even contacted us
group can't possibly type in every word
simply didn't exist. The system eventually once. He didn't appreciate the way we de
combination before the program is
scribed the Soviet Army of 1943 in the
shipped out to consumers. In Starcwss, for drifted down to the default code and some
Dnieper River Line program. Our research
example, a unique situation existed.-A how created a form of generic personality
had shown them to be a confused group
beam of light is present in the game which there. This all boils down to the fact that
with poor leadership, so that is the way
would set oft' an alarm when it was inter- you could type in 'Light beam go north,1
they were depicted in the game.
rupted. In order to piweed in the story, and the system would respond 'The light
"We were once in ""hot water1 with
beam walks north,' or I could say 'Light
beam, hello,' and the computer would re certain feminist groups. Awhile back,
we ran an interesting magazine ad that
ply 'The light beam nods its head in
greeting.' The aquarium in Zork II dis definitely caught their attention. It
played this same strange form of artifi contained the photo of a beautiful raven-
haired woman, dressed in a long
cial life. That was a very common bug in
black gown. This outfit revealed some
my earlier games, because I like to use
cleavage as she held boxes containing
things in my programs which contained
the infamous magic bit. After a while
Fortress of The Witch King and Parthian
Kings in her hands. Hence the caption
we isolated the problem, due to the mail
'Which King?' When several feminist
we received from our loyal clientele, and
split those two attributes permanently.
groups saw this promotion, they asked us
Now there is one bit in the development to discontinue the ad. They claimed it pre
sented an uncomplimentary image of
system that says this is a person, and
women to the youngsters who read the
another one which states you
computer magazines. Even though most
can hit, attack, cut, etc. an
of our products are designed for adult
ft
minds, we decided to keep peace with
these groups by dropping the ad campaign
entirely. Avalon Hill recently released
Dr. Ruth's Computer Game of Good Sex.
We expected the subject matter to
generate immediate negative comments
from certain groups and individuals, but
to our surprise everyone seems to like
the program."

Did You Hear The One About...

Mike Harrison, Communications Man
ager at MicroProse Software: "People are
constantly asking us for manuals they
can use with 'pirated' copies of our pro
grams. In the past, individuals have
claimed their manuals were destroyed by 'The whereabouts of Ultima IV, or you copy of Championship Baseball, our latest
earthquakes, fire, dogs, their kids, etc., will be next.' I hope the person who sent baseball program. 1 hope to get a progress
but some of the tales stand out from the the picture is reading this feature because report from him soon. Speaking of Cham
others. One of our followers escaped a fire it provided us a few laughs during a hectic pionship Baseball, a cruise ship director
in his car with a diskette and his life. Un day. Thank you very much, Ms. Dragon- called us a while back telling us about
fortunately the manual for the program slayer. how popular the program had become
was lost in the blaze. This person wanted "We also have a person we call our pet aboard their ship. Most of the crew were
a replacement manual for his software so dissatisfied customer. This individual has involved in the ship's microcomputer
badly that he sent us a series of photos of played every Ultima program to date and baseball league, and they had compiled
the burned-out auto. Another customer finds each one more difficult to complete statistics covering several hundred
has discovered a new toy for his dog. He than the last one, so he stalls writing me playings of the game. We hope this gentle
sent us one of our diskettes covered with hate mail to vent his frustration as he man will send us that information.
teeth marks. plays the game. His comments include: "Willie Nelson's manager recently con
"Bill Stealey (President of Microprose) 'This is the hardest game in the world, I tacted us, wondering when the follow-up
likes to tell the story of a fan who asked can't play it; the programmer must be a
Bill to get him an appointment at the Air total idiot,' or 'I just don't understand why "A Russian Counsel even
Force Academy in Colorado Springs. This anybody would want to buy this game.'
individual said it was okay if Bill couldn't My 'friend' writes me a series of uncompli contacted us once. He didn't
honor his request, and just in case it mentary letters while he continues to ad
wasn't possible, he asked Bill to please vance through the story of the program.
appreciate the way we
send him some money for his scholarship Once the final challenge has been solved, described the Soviet Army of
fund. he writes me a completely different note
"Andy Hollis also has a sense of humor. stating how much he enjoyed the game 1943 in the Dnieper River
As he was programming Silent Service, he and includes a check for the next one <we
always return the check because it usual
Line program."
"One of our followers ly arrives well in advance of the next pro
gram's release). Anyway Trip Hawkins, course diskettes for Championship Golf
escaped afire in his car with president of Electronic Arts, recently flew program would be available. It seems that
Willie and his band play Championship
a diskette and his life. in to \isit us at the Origin Systems office
Golf'in their specially-equipped vans all
in New Hampshire. We showed him our
Unfortunately the manual for wall of unusual fan mail and naturally he the time. If you're reading this article,
read the infamous series of notes we re Willie, please send me your best scores."
the program was lost in the ceived from our notorious customer. After
Activision Fans
blaze." Trip had returned home to his office in
Melinda Mongelluzzo, Public Relations
California, he was amazed to discover a
note from this same individual criticizing Coordinator at Activision: "I don't know
decided to add a secondary form of soft one of their products. So Trip sent this guy much about the fans of other software, but
ware protection. If an individual fries to a flamboyant letter telling him how hon our easterners never cease to amaze me.
copy that game, a new feature appears on ored he felt to receive a note from such a Several years ago, when we were manu
the original diskette: the pants of the sub famous person. After all, a special section facturing game cartridges, a woman had
marine captain fly up over his head. You of the Origin Systems letter wall had been the idea that they would run in her VCR.
would be surprised how many people call reserved for his comments about their She contacted us one day because she just
and write to us describing this phenom products. Trip also sent this character couldn't figure out how to plug that small
enon. It tells us immediately what has some free Electronic Arts software to com cartridge into the large slot of her video
taken place." memorate the fact that he was now a rec machine.
ognized software critic on both coasts." "Little Computer People has also been
Dragonslayers Inc. < Editor's Sote: Origin Systems and an inspiration for strange phone calls. Ev
Richard Gorriott (Lord British) of Ori Electronic Arts haw recently discontinued eryone wants to know what is hidden in
gin Systems, Inc.: "In recent months three their business relationship.) side the upstairs closet of the house be
copies of Ultima-related programs have cause the little man looks so happy when
been returned to us with a letter from the Good Sports he comes out. Most fans seem to have one
owners stating how much they have en Scott Orr, Vice President, Sports Devel of three theories on the matter: (1) his girl
joyed playing the games. The reason for opment at Activision: "A special breed of friend lives in there, (2) he keeps liquor in
returning the software: their spouses people seems to be drawn toward playing the room, or (3) someone's throwing a par
threatened to file for divorce if they didn't sports-related software. One of our loyal ty in the chamber. I would like to intro
devote more time to them and less time to fans has tried to earn the right to join the duce another possibility. Maybe the closet
the programs. One of our young female Star Leaguer Club for the past two years. is a lounge for the other little people who
followers was anxious to see Ultima IV hit To become a member of this exclusive or can't show up in the computer all at once.
the market. She sent us a really nice ganization, a person has to beat the com "I could write a book about the diskettes
drawing depicting a female warrior with puter in a game of Star League Baseball. that are sent back for replacement. One
her foot planted firmly on the chest of a To reward this individual for his contin was returned because the family dog had
recently slain dragon. The caption read ued effort to meet his goal, we sent him a Continued on pg. 95

COMMODORE MAGAZINE 73
 What about the monitor—it was sure to

Mail
veryone has been
in this situation. be cracked travelling from the west coast
You finish reading a magazine review or to the east. Or what if the company simply
advertisement about a particular product took my credit card number and disap
and you realize you must have it. So peared? What if they charged me more

Order
with your checkbook smoking and a check than they had agreed to over the phone?
ready to burn buying the thing, you nosh What if the system never arrived? I had a
down to your local "We Got It All" store lot of apprehension waiting for that first
and what happens? The fire goes out when delivery—all groundless. It arrived on
the clerk tells you "We don't have it, we time, in perfect working order and at the

Mania
don't know when we'll get it and to tell agreed price. In fact, later when I had
you the truth, we never heard of it." some problems adjusting the monitor for
The most frustrating time that hap the best color combination, the salesman
pened to me was in the fall of 1982. The was just as friendly and helpful (even
bargain-priced Commodore 64 (only $5951 though the phone call was at his expense)
by Gary V. Fields had just been released. It was everything as he had been when taking my order.
a home computer should be: affordable. I haven't hesitated to use mail-order
When ordering products by the lots of memory, color and sound plus a distributors since. However, over the
mail, "Caveat Emptor" is the powerful on-board version of BASIC. I years I have learned some do's and don't's
rule. By following a few simple knew, and the product reviewera knew, the to stick with when ordering from out-of-
little 64 was going to be a goliath killer— town dealers. The following are observa
guidelines you can avoid the
but none of the local store owners knew it. tions and suggestions from my personal
pitfalls of mail-order buying and With no local dealer to buy from, my only experiences and advice from specialists in
save time and money. alternative was to order my first system volved in the business. If you apply them
from a mail-oixler house in California. As you should not only save some money and
I waited for the UPS truck to pull up in time when ordering from a mail-order dis
front of the house I sweated and wondered: tributor but you'll also know what to do if
computers are supposed to be pretty frag something goes wrong with the transac
ile items, will it arrive in working order? tion or the pixxluct.
Mail-Order vs. Retail tages of immediate possession, so they if you use one which does not, be sure to
Actually, when we refer to "mail-order normally counter with lower prices, larger include those charges when calculating
ing" a product, more often than not it is selections, convenience of ordering and a the actual price of the item. Remember, if
the telephone not stamped mail which is variety of paying plans. Timing is the only you buy locally you must add local and
used to place the order. The "mail-order" category where they have difficulty com state sales tax to each purchase, and don't
tag, used to describe any distributor who peting—most can offer no better than forget the cost of getting to and from the
ships products rather than sells them next day delivery. retail store. When you order from a mail
across the counter, came into common use order house which is located in your state
just before the turn of the century (while Comparing Wees you still must pay taxes on the purchase.
Mr. Bell was trying to get his first patent If you insist on paying less than the re hi practice, I've found that the added
on a talking device). Most rural Ameri tail price, mail order is normally your best expense of shipping and credit card fees (if
cans were dependent upon large mail-or bet. Prices on mail-order products are gen I paid with plastic and was charged extra
der distributors like Spiegel's and Sears & erally 20-50# lower than even those of for doing so) averages around 596 of the
Roebuck to bring the things on their fered by discount stores. But before you sale's price, which in my case equals the
"wish list" to their front door. Mail-order jump at any buy, remember the list price, local sales tax. With these two charges in
houses still cater to those customers who regardless where you buy, is rarely the effect cancelling each other out, I make a
live far from the products they need, and price you will pay. Sales tax, whether straight comparison between retail and
in 1988 that often means computer and state, county or city always adds to the ac mail-order prices and buy from the low
software customers. tual price. Plus if you order from a store bidder. If Fm not in a hurry to get the
The three biggest considerations which out of town, you'll probably have to pay product, I can usually save a little more
will determine where you buy a product shipping charges and additional service (34%) by paying with a check. This really
are price, timing and convenience. If you fees if you pay with a credit card or C.O.D. slows delivery since the seller will not ship
need a product now and a retailer near (Collect on Delivery). until the check clears the bank. As a com
you has it in stock at a price you think is If you order from a mail-order house lo promise, I send a check only for supplies
reasonable—you should buy from them. cated out of state, your purchase will be (things like blank disks, printer ribbons
But the ability to buy across the counter is tax free. On an expensive purchase, this and paper) and pay by credit card for
usually paid for with a larger price tag savings on tax can add up to a handsome items I need in a hurry. The trouble with
and limited selection. Mail-order houses amount. Most mail-order dealers offer paying by credit card is that there is often
know they can't compete with the advan toll-free phone numbers for ordering, but a 2ffc or more service charge added to the
MIABOSNA
purchase. And if you delay paying the comes with it and what company will their mother. If you try to force a price
bank when the credit card bill arrives, the enforce the warranty. lower than is financially possible, more of
bank will add another 1.59E monthly An example of a disguised deal would ten than not. you'll end up eating your
charge until it is paid. Needless to say, I be a dealer selling a disk drive at a price words or buying, out of embarrassment,
pay my credit card hills on time and avoid 20-30$ less than anyone else's. The catch from a more expensive distributor.
inflating the price of my purchase. is, before you can buy the sale item at the Don't assume the price listed in the
Most dealers will ship COD. or accept below-wholesale price, you have to buy magazine ad is set in stone. Most sellers
a cashier's check. C.O.D. is usually fast, another include a disclaimer which states the
but the delivery service iUPS, U.S. Postal product printed price on a product may change.
Service, etc.) will always add a justifiable Iperhaps I've never found this disclaimer used as
but considerable amount for their trouble. a monitor or "bait and switch' scheme. Instead it is the
Another negative to C.O.D. ordering is printer) as well. Often mail-order house's honest attempt to be
you must arrange to be home the price of the re competitive. His deadline for the ad may
when the courier brings the quired purchase be a month or even more, before the mag
package or he won't will cancel any azine is published and distributed. His
leave it. On the savings on price (from the manufacturer) may
the drive. change between the time he gives the
magazine's ad department the quote and
the time you read it. But as often as not
any change may be lower rather than
higher, in which case he may offer the
product at a price lower than listed. The
rule then is to always ask the current
Other deals price. If the salesperson gives you a quote
might require higher than that listed, mention the ad
you buy an entire and the listed price. Nine times out often
other hand. system or specific software. they'll sell at the lower price in order to
C.O.D. is the Sometimes these deals can save you get your business. You have the advan
safest method of payment since money money and give you exactly what you tage here—when you hang up. the sales
doesn't change hands until the product is need, but often they force you to buy a person can't call you back to reconsider.
delivered. Using a cashier's check drawn peripheral or software with which you'll so they are usually eager to agree upon a
from your local bank usually speeds never be entirely happy. An extreme \ictim price rather than hear the phone line die
things a bit i the seller doesn't have to wait of this sale technique is a blind computer along with a sale.
for it to clear the bank before shipping), user I know. He bought two entire systems
but there is still the delay waiting for the including monitors—even though he can't Selection
check to get to the mail-order house, see the screen and the speech synthesizer A real advantage of buying by mail or
So. for me at least, the most sensible he relies upon uses an external speaker, der rather than retail is the wide selection
way to order is with a credit card. It com not the monitor's. But the distributor's of products from which to choose. To un
bines speed, convenience and reasonable deal was computer and monitor or noth derstand how these stores can cany more
cost plus one other advantage. If some ing. He's trying to sell the monitors, and if products than national retailers you have
thing goes wrong with the transaction (no he can, the buy was a bargain. If not, he to understand how they operate. First,
delivery, wrong item, wrong charges, etc.) lost both money and time on the deal. mail-order houses normally carry special
the bank which issued the card will nor When you see an ad that lists "Call for ty items, appealing to only a specific sec
mally help you defend your rights and Price" in the price block you can usually tion of the population. The people who
funds. assume you have found a business which "enter" a mail-order computer store are
When shopping, beware of unbelievably is willing to negotiate a final price. Don't looking for computerware only—not snow
low prices—often they are intentionally hesitate (providing the call is toll-free) to tires, perfume, washing machines or
misleading or disguised package deals. call and ask the price. I always make the chocolate. So if a mail-order owner wants
A misleading ad might list an item call to these distributors last—after I've to make a sale, he or she has to have a
which is actually a used unit which has checked the firm price of other mail-order good selection of what the buyer wants. By
been repaired or a clone (off brand look- houses who list their prices. This way I the same token they don't have to stock
alike copy i of the original. The explana know what price he needs to meet or beat general interest items. They know their
tion of the switch is normally noted in the to get my business. customers and what they want.
fine print somewhere else in the ad. While If you've seen an item advertised Next, they don't necessarily have to
the products and the prices may be satis cheaper somewhere else, let the salesper stock everything they sell. Most buy from
factory, unless you read and understand son know. Often they will adjust their large wholesale warehouse dealers like
the entire ad before ordering, you may be prices to match or beat that of their com the Computer Software Service in Illinois.
in for a surprise when your order arrives. petition if they know. But don't try to get When they receive orders for items they
There is nothing wrong with buying a re them to change their price by misleading don't have in stock, they collect them until
built or cloned product—most users would them with deflated competitive prices that the end of the day and order it all from
never know the difference by looks don't exist. These people always know their wholesaler. The advantage to this ar
alone—but if you do buy such a product, what the bottom price line is, and they rangement is that the mail-order house
make sure you understand what warranty won't cross it—not for you, not even for doesn't have to stock specialty items that

76 FEBRUARY 1988
only a few customers will need, yet they my order delivered, that's usually weeks for a salesperson to find the time to wait
can still fill orders for those items fairly less than waiting for the local discount or on me and then drive back home, I could
quickly. department store to get the product in have compared the prices of a dozen or
Not only do they carry a wider selection stock—providing they even decide to more mail-order houses, placed my order,
(usually if you can identify an item, they stock it. watched the six o'clock news and finished
can get it for you), they are normally the To minimize delays, the buyer should dinner. So for me at least, the convenience
first to stock and offer a new release for always ask the dealer if the product is in of buying by phone more than saves me
sale. This eagerness to offer the newest stock. If it's not. you may want to check money; it saves time.
items can occasionally get them in hot wa with other mail-order houses before put
ter. If you've worked with computers very ting your name on a waiting list. Distribu How to Select a Mail-Order
long you have heard the term "vapor tors often allot a certain number of new Distributor
ware" mentioned. Mail-order houses get products to a dealer until manufacturing There is nothing more frustrating than
stung by this annoying insect more often can catch up with demand. If you put your trying to communicate with a person who
than any other seller. What happens is a name on a list that is already bursting, doesn't speak your language. While more
developer promises a product on a certain you may have to wait for the second or and more people are becoming knowledge
date. The mail-order owner assumes the even third shipment before your name able about computers and computer
developer will fulfill the promise. Now he moves to the top. Ask how many orders terms, still only a minority of the populace
faces a timing dilemma. In order to let po they will have to process before they can is fluent. When I place an order or want
tential buyers know they will be selling ship yours. Then check with other dealers. information about a product, I expect the
the product they must coordinate the ap It is not unusual to find one dealer out of salesperson to know the product and be
pearance of their ad with the publishing stock and on the next call find one who able to discuss it with me. If they can't I
date of the magazine and the date the de can ship the same day. Don't hesitate to usually ask to speak with someone else. If
veloper promised the product would be call and ask—after all that's one of the they can't get someone to the phone who
ready to market. Unfortunately, the re conveniences of ordering by phone—you can help me, I write that store off my list
lease of the product is often delayed, or can do a lot of pricing and shopping in a of potential buying places. I've found that
worse is cancelled, leaving the mail-order hurry. If you do put your name on a list, a good indication of whether I'm going to
house with an ad for a product which ask when the salesperson expects the be happy with a purchase depends upon
doesn't exist—vaporware. Normally the shipment to arrive. If you don't the expertise of the sales staff. This is
problem is just a frustrating delay and the hear from the store within a more important than you might think.
product eventually arrives. But in the reasonable time, call and reconfirm A friend of mine spent
meantime the seller has to answer a lot of your order. several
irate callers wanting what's in their ad. Always get the name of the salesperson
The dealer can also lose money on de who takes your order. They normally offer
layed products. This exact scenario was it up front since many work
played out when Simons BASIC was an on commission and want
nounced. 1 called a dealer whose ad you to ask for them
claimed he had it in stock. He apologized with future orders.
for the error, explained the release date It helps to talk
had to be pushed back and offered to put to the same
me on a list for a copy as soon as it ar person

rived. A month later a salesperson called

to tell me they had finally received the
first shipment but the wholesale price was
nearly double what they had expected. each
But like a good store owner not wanting to time frustrating
lose a future customer, they explained you need to discuss your order. hours and
that if I still wanted the cartridge they wasted some
\
would ship it to me at the originally-ad Convenience hard-earned mon
vertised price and absorb the loss. I hap If you are a comparison shopper like ey trying to straighten
pily agreed. me, you can't beat the convenience of com out a mixup. He ordered
paring prices by simply flipping pages geoDex (and even spelled it
Speed rather than driving from store to store. letter by letter) but instead re
I've never seen anyone who used com Plus there are always more prices and ceived GEOSDeskPack. Tb the salesperson
puters who didn't want a response in a products to compare between a variety of there was no difference between the two,
hurry. After all, that's one of the primary mail-order houses than the limited num but to my friend there was a great deal of
reasons we use computers—we are in a ber of dealers listed in your yellow pages. difference. Because the salesperson didn't
hurry to get our jobs done. So when I want In fact, if you come from a medium or understand the difference between the two
(or need) a product, I'm usually a little smaller city (like my hometown, Ashe- programs my friend had to repack and ship
more than impatient to get it into my ville, NO the only way to comparison the wrong program back (at his expense),
hands. That is another reason why I nor shop is by mail order. make three long-distance phone calls (at
mally turn to mail-order houses when a Time (and the lack of it) is always a his expense) and wait another two weeks
newly-released product is involved. Even problem around my house. During the for the replacement program to arrive.
though it may take two to ten days to get time it takes me to drive downtown, wait Continued on pg. 112

COMMODORE MA3AZ1NE 77
COMPUTER TUTOR

VOCAB
The Versatile Study
Partner for the
Commodore 64
The serious study of vocabulary,
whether for school or for personal en
hancement, demands a great deal of work.
Many diverse study techniques have been
suggested for learning vocabulary, hut in
the end. all include searching fhr defini
tions, recording Ihem and reviewing ihem are programmed to move from screen to is accidently pressed twice. VOCAB delib
over and over until ihev iiemnie fued in screen in a logical order. erately limits the length of definitions to
your mind. There is nn magic way Lndo 5) Print-out capabilities enable you to 80 characters. Such a limitation forces
this, hui learning anything becomes easi print out a list or supply two different you to be more concise in writing defini
er when you have someone i" interaci tvpes of quizzes. tions.
with iiiiH quiz you. Hi A color selector lets you choose the In the Quiz Mode, you are asked to sup
The computer is the ideal assistant (hr colors. Researchers have found pleasant ply the correct term. VOCAB will not ac
this lask; it never tires of the repetition colors to be an important psychological as cept a misspelling and allows for three
and will continue to drill you as long as set to learning. Why not use this factor to wrong answers before flashing the correct
you need. A program for this purpose your advantage? answer on the screen. Answering incor
should be more than just a data base that The first screen asks if you desire a cer rectly triggers a gentle rebuke, but correct
stores information and spits it hack. Y»u tain file. Answering with a "Y" activates responses gain big rewards. By following
should Ix.1 ahle to converse with it and ask the Quiz Mode, letting you choose from the directions in the windows, you can re
for help. During a quiz meant to teach, the any of the sequential files already saved. view the whole list, review the definitions,
program should allnw you ro see the nrijn- An "N" tells the computer that you want or request a glance at the answer at any
nai list or ask fin the definition of a word. to write a new file. Personal ability and time. (Note that the Fl key calls up the
If your mind goes absolutely blank, why preference will help you to decide how main menu, and the F3 key deletes an an
shouldn't you be able in ask for a glimpse many words should be included in each swer if you decide it is wrong before press
ot the answer without interrupting the list. The mastery often words per list is a ing RETURN. If needed, use the F3 key
quiz? Remember lhis program helps you comfortable goal with which to start. rather than the DELETE key, the use of
learn: it doesn't evaluate you. ■"When saving files, the use of numerals which will form an answer which is unac
VOCAB turns the 64 into a very helpful for titles keeps the files in good order and ceptable to the computer.) The quiz pre
partner fhr learning new words. Manv ex makes for easy recall. Keep a separate sents definitions in a random order, cover
tra features are included so you can con disk for VOCAB so that plenty of space ing each definition in the list before ask
centrate on the words—not the computer, will be available for files.) ing if you want to be requizzed. At this
JI Help windows on each page supply Notice that a "Q" will let you quit the point, you may stay with the present list
the directions needed to make full use of program. Using this option, rather than or choose to call up another list without
the program. the RUN/STOP key, will automatically leaving the program.
2) Word wrap is usually not found in close the error channel which protects Everyone has two vocabularies: those
BASIC programs. VOCAB uses this fea from computer snags. A "C" will let you words used in conversation and other
ture in order to print clear and neat defi use the odd-numbered function keys to words that are recognized but not often
nitions. choose from any of the sixteen colors used. A ten to fifteen minute review of a
3) A sophisticated error handler lets you available on the 64. list each day can produce surprising re
concentrate on learning vocabulary in With a great sense of humility, comput sults. Words will automatically begin to
stead of worrying about a blinking red ers know that humans make mistakes, so slide into your conversation, helping you
light on the disk drive and cryptic error VOCAB allows for errors when writing to to express ideas more fully. Reading will
messages on the screen. If a request is files. If you make a mistake entering the become more enjoyable as "strange words"
made for a file which does not exist on the term but have already pressed RETURN, turn into vivid ideas. After the words on
disk, the screen will simply ask for an simply enter a "0" as the definition and one list become second nature, move on to
other choice. that single entry will be deleted. Another a new list. Previous lists will always be on
4) One-key movements within the pro safeguard in the Writing Mode prevents disk if you need to brush up. Happy lexi
gram allow for easy utility, b unction keys you from advancing if the RETURN key cography! a

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RO Bon JO008, Shrcveport, LA "11JO-0007, I BOO-Sjl 1W i :PRINT CHRS(14)'HCJH
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10 POKE 53280,6:POKE 53281,8 30 OPEN 15,8,15'BHAA Continued on pg. 80

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Computer Tutor/VOCAB
Continued from pg.
g 78 300 PRINT"[D0WN,SPACE5]
40 DIM T$(25):DIM DS (25) 3) WRITE NEW LIST?"'BAFD
:DIM C$(25)'DUQF
)■UUg* 310 PRINT" [DOWN,RVS,SHFT Q] = [SHFT Q,
50 PRINT TAB(15)"[SHFT V,SHFT
TAB{15)"[SHFT V 0, SHFT U,SHFT I,SHFT T,RVOFF]'" BAPD
BAP
SHFT A,SHFT B]"
SHFT C,SHFT B] 320 GET CH$:IF CH$=""THEN
THEN 320'EKCD
:FOR 1=1 TO
T 80:PRINT"[CMDR +] 330 TF
IF rHS = f!HRSfnfi1THEN
CHS=CHRS(136)THEN 1R7H'RMVF
1870'EMVF
:NEXT'HLFM 340 IF CH$=CHR$(32JTHEN GOSUB 810'FKDG
60 PRINT"[DOW
PRINT"[DOWN2,SHFT T] 350 IF CH$="1"THEN RQ=0:GOSUB 1250
HIS PROGRAM WILL TUTOR YOU ON[DOWN :GOTO 240'GPYJ
"'BAVL
VL 360 IF CHS="2"THEN 1560'DHUG
70 PRINT"VOCABULARY LISTS u
OF YOUR OWN 370 IF CHS="3"THEN 210'DGOH
MAKING.":GOSUB 1340'CFRP 380 IF CH$="Q"THEN CLOSE 15:END'FG0J
80 PRINT"[D0WN4] [SHFT D]0 390 GOTO 220'BDDH
YOU WANT TO RECALL A SPECIAL 400 PRINT"[CLEAR,SHFT Y]OU
LIST?"'BAMP HAVE COMPLETED A ROUND OF LIST
90 PRINT"[DOWN2,SPACE13,RVS,SHFT Y, "LD-.PRINT:GOSUB 1340'DIRL
RVOFF,SPACE2]OR[SPACE2,RVS,SHFT N, 410 PRINT"[D0WN2,SHFT D]O
RVS]":FOR 1=1 TO 25:TS(I)="" YOU WANT TO DO MORE? (Y/W/N)"
:D$(I)="":NEXT'HSMS
:D$(I)="":NEXT'HSMS :CH$="":GOSUB 1340'DJRL
100 PRINT" [D0WN3,RVS,SHFT Q] = [SHFT Q, 420 PRINT"[DOWN,RVS,SHFT Y]
SHFT U,SHFT I,SHFT T,RVOFF] WILL CONTINUE WITH QUIZ[RVOFF]
•SPC(27)"[RVS,SHFT
"SPC(27)"[RVS,SHFT C]=[SHFT C, '"BAWI
SHFT O,SHFT L,SHFT
" O,SHFT R,RVOFF] 430 PRINT"[DOWN,RVS,SHFT W]
'"CDUH WILL ALLOW YOU TO WRITE A LIST
110 GET RZ$:IF "THEN
RZ$=""TH 110'EKPA [RVOFF]":PRINT"[DOWN,RVS,SHFT N
N]
120 IF RZ$="N"THEN 170'DGEA WILL END[RVOFF]"'CBSQ
130 IF RZS="Y"THEN CO=1:GOSUB 1250 440 GET Y$:IF Y$=""THEN 440'EIFG
:GOTO 170'GPIF 450 IF Y$WTHEN
Y$="W"THEN 210DFAG
210'DFAG
140 IF RZS="C"THEN 2010'DHLC 460 IF YS="Y"THEN 710'DFHH
710'
150 IF J'THEN
R7.S="d1ithf;m CLOSE 15:END'FGWE 470 IF YS="N"THEN CLOSE 15: END'FFLJ
160 GOTO 110'BDBC 480 GOTO 440'BDHH
BDHH
170 PRINT"[DOWN2,SPACE5,RVS,SPACE3, 490 PRINT" [HOME,CLEAR] '"BANI
SHFT HJIT ANY KEY TO BEGIN. 500 PRINT"[SPACE5,SHFT B,SHFT U,
[SPACE4, RVOFF] '"BAUK
[SPACE4,RVOFF]"' SHFT I,SHFT L,SHFT D,SHFT I,
180 GET R$:IF RS=""THEN 180'EIRH SHFT N,SHFT G,SHFT SPACE,SHFT A,
190 IF CO=1 THEN CO=0:GOTO 240'FKPJ SHFT SPACE,SHFT V,SHFT O,SHFT C,
200 IF RS=CHR$(32)THEN
32JTHEN 210'EJFA SHFT A,SHFT B,SHFT U,SHFT L,
210 GOSUB 490'BDQX SHFT A,SHFT R,SHFT Y,SHFT SPACE,
220 PRINT"[HOME]"
PRINT"[HOME]"''BAVX SHFT L,SHFT I,SHFT S,SHFT T]"
230 Q=0:G=0'CFYB :GOSUB 1340'CFFW
PRINT"[SPACE5,CLEAR,SHFT W,SHFT 510 PRINT"[DOWN4,SPACE3 j
SHFT A,SHFT T,SHFT SPACE,SHFT I, HOW MANY ENTRIES "; •BBJG
SHFT S,SHFT SPACE,SHFT Y,SHFT 0, 520 INPUT ENT'BDHC
SHFT U,SHFT
, R,SHFT
, SPACE,SHFT , D, 530 FOR W=l TO ENT'DFTF
QHPT
SHFT P.CUTTT
E,SHFT q CUPT
S,SHFT T CUCT
I,SHFT D
R, 540 PRINT"[CLEAR,SHFT N,SHFT O,SHFT T,
SHFT E] [SHFT F,SHFT O,SHFT R, SHFT E] : [DOWN] ":PRINTtp [RVS]
SHFT SPACE,SHFT L,SHFT I,SHFT S, '0'=SCRATCH ENTRY[SPACE13,RVOFF]
SHFT T] # "LD5"?[D0WN]"'BDKY
HFT TJ "LD$"?[D0WN]"'BDKY '"CBEP
250 PRINT
RINT TAB(10)"[RVS,SPACE2,SHFT F]
F 550 PRINT"[RVS] [SHFT D,SHFT 0,
7=[SHFT
=[SHFT RSHFT
R,SHFT ESHFT
E,SHFT V,SHFT
VSHFT I,
I
SHFT SPACE,SHFT N,SHFT O,SHFT T,
HFT E,SHFT W,SPACE2]":GOSUB 1340
SHFT SPACE,SHFT U,SHFT S,SHFT E,
CL=0'EMQM
SHFT SPACE,SHFT C,SHFT O,SHFT M2,
RINT"[DOWN,SPACE8,CMDR P18]"'BAK
SHFT A,SHFT S,SHFT SPACE,SHFT 0,
tRINT"[SPACE8,RVS] [SHFT S,SHFT P
SHFT R,SHFT SPACE,SHFT C,SHFT 0,
SHFT A,SHFT C,SHFT E,SHFT SPACE,
SHFT L,SHFT O,SHFT N,SHFT S,
SHFT B,SHFT A,SHFT R] = [SHFT Q,
SHFT SPACE2,RVOFF]"'BAWC
SHFT U,SHFT I,SHFT Z] [RVOFF] 560 PRINT"[D0WN2]"W"
[2] TERM: ";'BCEI
"'BAAQ 570 INPUT T$(W)'BFOH
280 PRINT"[SPACE22,DOWN]":GOSUB 1340 580 IF T$(W)=""THEN
$(W)THEN PRINT"[UP]"
:PRINT"[SPACE9,DOWN,RVS]OR[RVOFF, :G0TO
TO 540'FJNM
DOWN] '"DGKM 590 IF T$(W)="0"THEN W=W-l:NEXT'GJTO
PRINT"[D0WN,SPACE5] 600 PRINT"[DOWN]"W" DEFINITION
1) DIFFERENT LIST?" : [DOWN] '"BBUE
:PRINT"[D0WN,SPACE5] 610 INPUT D$(W)'BFXC
2) PRINTED COPY OF LIST?"'CBRS
Continued on pg. 82

80 FEBRUARY 1988
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Computer Tutor/VOCAB
Continued from /# X-1:PRINT CHR$(20);:NEXT E:X=0
620 IF D$(W)=""THEN PRINT"[UP4]" :GOTO 970'NBLH
:GOTO 600'FJUJ 1020 IF T$=CHR$(135JTHEN 1100'ELGY
630 IF DS(W)="0"THEN W=W-l: NEXT ' GJDJ 1030 IF T$=CHR${13)THEN X=0
640 NEXT W'BBQE :GOTO 1060'GNFC
650 W=W-1'CDJH 1040 AS=A$+T$'CGHY
660 PRINT"[DOWN5,SHFT D]O 1050 GOTO 980'BDQY
YOU WANT THIS SAVED?"' BAFN 1060 IF A$=TS(R)THEN 1130'DLPD
670 GET RR$:IF RRS=""THEN 670'EKKL 1070 G=G+1:IF G>2 THEN 1100'FKOF
680 IF RR$O"N"AND RR$O"Y"THEN 1080 PRINT"[D0WN2]WRONG!![SPACE2]
670'HJBP TRY AGAIN!]":CL=0'CEQI
690 IF RR$="Y"THEN GOSUB 1200'EHKN 1090 FOR D=l TO 1000:NEXT
700 RETURN'BAQB :GOTO 860'FLQH
710 PRINT"[DOWN2,SHFT S]AME OR 1100 PRINT"[D0WN2,SHFT A,SHFT N,
[SHFT N]EW LIST?[SPACE3,RVSr SHFT S,SHFT WfSHFT E,SHFT R]
SHFT S,RVOFF] OR [RVS,SHFT N, :[SPACE2]"T$(R)'BFNB
RVOFF]?"'BAVM 1110 FOR D=l TO 1000:NEXT'EHAX
720 GET S$:IF S$=""THEN 720'EITH 1120 CL=0:G=0:GOTO 860'DKCA
730 IF S$="S"THEN Q=0:GOTO 240'FIIJ 1130 CL=0:PRINT"[DOWN2]"
740 IF SS="N"THEN Q=0:R=0:ENT=0 :GOSUB 1730'DJWA
:GOSUB 1250:GOTO 240'IVDP 1140 FOR D=l TO 1000:NEXT'EHAB
750 IF SSO"S"OR SSO"N"THEN 720'HHLM 1150 G=0:Q=Q+1:C$(Q)=T$(R)'ERLF
760 FOR D=l TO 1000:NEXT'EHAK 1160 IF Q=W THEN 400'DFGD
770 G = 0:Q=Q+1:CS{Q)=D$(R) ' ERUO 1170 GOTO 810'BDIC
780 IF Q=W THEN 800'DFKM 1180 RETURN'BAQC
790 GOTO 720'BDIL 1190 END'BACD
800 RETURN'BAQC 1200 INPUT"[DOWN]NAME OF FILE
810 R=INT(RND(1)*W)+1'FILI : ";NF$'BEEA
820 IF R=0 THEN 810'DFEG 1210 OPEN 2,8,2,"0:"+NF$+",S,W"
830 FOR P=l TO Q'DDSH :GOSUB 1810'EOFC
840 IF T$(R)=C$(P)THEN 810'DNJK 1220 R=INTCRND"(1) *W)+1IFILC
850 NEXT P'BBJH 1230 FOR 1=1 TO ENT:PRINT#2,T$(I)
860 PRINT"[CLEAR,DOWN,SHFT SPACE12, :PRINT#2,DS(I):NEXT:CLOSE 2'HYPH
CMDR 014]"'BAUB 1240 RETURN'BAQY
870 PRINT"[SPACE12,RVS,SHFT T,SHFT H, 1250 INPUT"[DOWN3,SPACE3,SHFT W]HAT
SHFT I,SHFT S,SHFT SPACE,SHFT I, LIST DO YOU WANT";LD$
SHFT S,SHFT SPACE,SHFT A, :LD=VAL(LD$)'DMBL
SHFT SPACE,SHFT Q,SHFT U,SHFT I, 1260 ENT=0:W=0:OPEN 2,8,2,"0
SHFT Z,RVOFF,D0WN2J"' BAVW :"+LD$+",S,R":GOSUB 1810'GWIL
880 PRINT DN$"[CMDR P11]TI1BDWS 1270 FOR 1=1 TO 25:D$(I)="":T$(1)=""
890 PRINT DNS"[RVS] [SHFT F]1=[SHFT C, :NEXT'GRUJ
SHFT H,SHFT A,SHFT N,SHFT G, 1280 FOR 1=1 TO 25'DEIF
SHFT E] "'BDGS 1290 INPUT#2,T$(I):INPUT#2,D$(I)'CPSI
900 PRINT DNS"[RVS] [SHFT F]3=[SHFT D, 1300 ENT=ENT+1:W=W+1'ELHB
SHFT E,SHFT L,SHFT E,SHFT T, 1310 IF ST=64 THEN CLOSE 2
SHFT E] "'BDVK :GOTO 1330'FKFC
910 PRINT DN$"[RVS] [SHFT F]5=ANSWER " 1320 NEXT'BAEX
:PRINT DNS"[RVS] [SHFT F]7= 1330 RETURN'BAQY
[SHFT L,SHFT I,SHFT S,SHFT T, 1340 FOR 1=1 TO 80:PRINT"[CMDR T]";
SPACE3]":GOSUB 1340'DMQQ :NEXT:RETURN'GINF
920 PRINT L$" DEFINITION: ":PRINT 1350 PRINT"[CLEAR]#"LD"[DOWN,SPACE8,
:FOR 1=1 TO LEN(D$(R))'GNSO RVS,SHFT SPACE,SHFT I,SHFT N,
930 PRINT MIDS(DS(R),1,1);'CMDJ SHFT SPACE,SHFT T,SHFT H,SHFT I,
940 IF POS(0)>28 THEN IF MIDS(D$(R),I, SHFT S,SHFT SPACE,SHFT L,SHFT I,
1)=" "THEN PRINT:PRINT'KRNQ SHFT S,SHFT T,SHFT SPACE,SHFT A,
950 NEXT'BAEI SHFT R,SHFT E] [RVOFF,D0WN3]
960 PRINT" ":PRINT"[D0WN3]TERM "'BCVR
: ";'CCTM 1360 FOR 1=1 TO ENT:PRINT I"[LEFT]
970 AS="":T$="":X=0'DINN ) "T$ (I) :NEXT'FNKJ
980 GET T$:PRINT T$;:IF T$=""THEN 1370 PRINT"[DOWN3,SPACE14,RVS]
980'FMNQ Fl = HELP [RVOFF]"'BAXI
990 X=X+1:IF T$=CHR$(136)THEN 1380 PRINT"[SPACE14,RVS] F7 [SHFT Q,
1350'GPCT SHFT U,SHFT I,SHFT Z,SPACE3,
1000 IF T$=CHR$(133)THEN 240'EKKW RVOFF]"'BAFL
1010 IF T$=CHR$(134)THEN FOR E=l TO Continued on pg. 84

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Continued from />#. 82
:CLOSE 4:GOTO 240'FPGI
1390 PRINT"[SPACE14,RVS] F8
[SHFT SPACE,SHFT R,SHFT E,SHFT V, 1730 PRINT"[SPACE4,CMDR @2,SPACE2,
SHFT I,SHFT E,SHFT W] [RVOFF] CMDR @2,SHFT SPACE2,CMDR @2,
"'BAEO SPACE2,CMDR @2,SHFT SPACE2,
1400 GET RES:IF RE$=""THEN 1400'ELYB CMDR @2,SHFT SPACE2,CMDR @2,
1410 IF RE$=CHR$(133)THEN 1450'EMYD SHFT SPACE2,CMDR @2]"'BAQS
1420 IF RE$=CHR$(140)THEN 1870'EMCE 1740 PRINT"[SPACE4,CMDR G,SPACE3,
1430 IF RE?=CHR${136)THEN RES="":CL=0 CMDR H,SHFT SPACE,CMDR H,
:GOTO 820'HTWI SHFT SPACE,CMDR G] [CMDR G]
1440 GOTO 1400'BECC [CMDR G,SHFT SPACE,CMDR H,
1450 INPUT"[DOWN2/SHFT E]NTER SHFT SPACE,CMDR G,SHFT SPACE3,
REQUESTED # AND [RVS] CMDR G,SPACE3fCMDR N] "'BACR
[SHFT R,SHFT E,SHFT T,SHFT U,
1750 PRINT"[SPACE4,CMDR G,SPACE3,
SHFT R,SHFT N] [RVOFF]";RQ:PRINT
CMDR G,SHFT SPACE,CMDR H,
iPRINT'DFUR SHFT SPACE,CMDR G,SPACE3,CMDR G,
1460 IF RQ>ENT THEN 1450'DJEH
SHFT SPACE3,CMDR H]-[SPACE2,
1470 PRINT11 [CLEAR, RVS,SHFT T]ERM
CMDR H,SPACE3fCMDR N] "'BACQ
:[RVOFF,SPACE2]"TS(RQ)'BGQJ
1760 PRINT"[SPACE4,CMDR G,SHFT SPACE3,
1480 PRINT"[DOWN2,RVS,SHFT D]
CMDR G,SHFT SPACE,CMDR H,
EFINITION[RVOFF] :":PR INT'CBYK
SHFT SPACE,CMDR G,SPACE3,CMDR G,
1485 FOR 1=1 TO LEN(D$(RQ))
SHFT SPACE3,CMDR G,SHFT SPACE3,
:PRINT MID$(D$(RQ),1,1);'GYYT
CMDR G,SHFT SPACE3,CMDR M] "'BARV
1490 LL=LL+1'CFNI
1500 IF LL>32 AND MID$(D$(RQ) , I, 1770 PRINT"[SPACE4,CMDR T2,
1)=" "THEN PRINT:PRINT:LL=0'JVBI SHFT SPACE2,CMDR T2,SHFT SPACE4,
1510 NEXT'BAEY SPACE4,SHFT SPACE2,CMDR T2,

1520 PRINT:PRINT"[SPACE5,DOWN3,RVS, SHFT SPACE2,CMDR T2,SPACE4] '" BAFU

SHFT P]RESS [SHFT S,SHFT P, 1780 PRINT" [SPACE3,CMDR +27]'"BAYB
SHFT A,SHFT C,SHFT E,SHFT SPACE, 1790 RETURN'BAQJ
SHFT B,SHFT A,SHFT R] 1800 REM ERROR CHANNEL'BMSF
TO CONTINUE[RVOFF]"'CBGP 1810 INPUT#15,CH,B$,C,D'BMSF
1530 GET RES:IF RES=""THEN 1530'ELDF 1820 IF CH=0 THEN RETURN'EDTG
1540 IF RE$OCHRS (32)THEN 1530'FLAH 18 30 PRINT" [CLEAR] ":PRINT"[RVS]"B$"
1550 LL=0:GOTO 1350'CIGG [RVOFF]":PRINT#15,"I"
1560 PRINT"[CLEAR,SHFT Y] :CLOSE 2'EJVJ
OU DESIRE A PRINTED LIST OF 1840 IF CH=62 THEN FOR 1=1 TO 900:NEXT
:[DOWN2]":GOSUB 1340'CFXP :GOTO 50'INOM
1570 PRINT"A) TERMS ONLY[DOWN]"'BASJ 1850 END'BACG
1580 PRINT"B) DEFINITIONS ONLY[DOWN] 1860 REM REVIEW'BGVJ
11 ' BACL 1870 FOR 1=1 TO ENT'DFFL
1590 PRINT"C) BOTH[DOWN] '" BAEJ 1875 PRINT"[CLEAR,RVS,SPACE21] "
1600 PRINT"[POUND] RETURN TO MENU :PRINT"[RVS] [SHFT W,SHFT 0,
[DOWN2] '"BABE SHFT R,SHFT D,SHFT SPACErSHFT B,
1610 PRINT"ANSWER: ";'BBFD SHFT Y,SHFT SPACE,SHFT W,SHFT 0,
1620 GET AN$:IF ANS=""THEN 1620 ELMF SHFT R,SHFT D,SHFT SPACE,SHFT R,
1630 PRINT AN$:FOR 1=1 TO 200 SHFT E,SHFT V,SHFT I,SHFT E,
INEXT'FKLH SHFT W] [RVOFF]"'CBKI
1640 IF AN$="A"THEN 1690'DHSG 1880 PRINT"[RVS] [SHFT S,SHFT P,
1650 IF AN$="B"THEN 1700'DHLH SHFT A,SHFT CfSHFT E,SHFT SPACE,
1660 IF AN$="C"THEN 1710'DHNI SHFT T,SHFT O,SHFT SPACE,SHFT A,
1670 IF ANS="[POUND]"THEN 240'DGMJ SHFT D,SHFT V,SHFT A,SHFT N,
1680 GOTO 1620'BEGI SHFT C,SHFT E,SPACE4,RVOFF]"
1690 OPEN 4,4,7:FOR 1=1 TO EN :PRINT"[RVS] [SHFT F]7 = [SHFT L,
:PRINT#4,I"[SPACE2]" T$(I):NEXT SHFT I,SHFT S,SHFT T] & [SHFT Q,
:CLOSE 4:GOTO 1720'ICPS SHFT U,SHFT I,SHFT Z,SPACE4]
1700 OPEN 4f4,7:FOR 1=1 TO EN '"CBLI
:PRINT#4,I"[SPACE2]"DS (I):NEXT 1890 PRINT"[RVS] [SHFT F]8 =
:CLOSE 4:GOTO 1720'ICYK [SHFT SPACE,SHFT R,SHFT E,SHFT V,
1710 OPEN 4,4,7:FOR 1=1 TO EN SHFT E,SHFT R,SHFT S,SHFT E,
:PRINT#4,I"[SPACE2]"T$(I);" - " SPACE8]":PRINT"[RVS,SPACE21,
D$(I):NEXT'GCJL D0WN5]"'CBUX

1715 CLOSE 4:GOTO 1720'CGVI 1900 PRINT I"[LEFT]) "T$(I)"

1720 OPEN 4,4,4:PRINT#4:PRINT#4

84 FEBRUARY 1988
Computer Tutor/VOCAB
= [SHFT C,SHFT U,SHFT R,SHFT S,
: [SPACE2]"; 'BHUF
SHFT O,SHFT R,SHFT SPACE,SHFT C,
1910 FOR J=l TO LEN(D$(I))'EJDH
SHFT O,SHFT L,SHFT O,SHFT R,
1920 PRINT MID${D$(I),J,l);'CMUH
SHFT SPACE,SHFT F,SHFT O,SHFT R,
1930 IF POS(0)>28 THEN IF MID$(D$(I),
SHFT SPACE,SHFT C,SHFT H,SHFT A,
0,1)=" "THEN PRINT:PRINT'KRFO
SHFT R,SHFT A,SHFT C,SHFT T,
1940 NEXT J'BBDG
SHFT E,SHFT R,SHFT S,RVOFF]"'BAMG
1950 GET R$:IF R$-""THEN 1950'EJVL
2080 GET R$:IF R$=""THEN 2080'EJQG
1960 IF I=ENT THEN PRINT"[CLEAR]"
2090 IF R$=CHR$(133)THEN 2150'ELIH
:G0TO 1870'FJLN
2100 IFRS=CHR$(134)THEN 2170'ELLY
1970 IF R$=CHR$(32)THEN NEXT I'FHLN
2110 IF R$=CHR$(135)THEN 2210'ELHA
1980 IF R$=CHR$(140)THEN IF I>1 THEN
2120 IF R$=CHR$(136)THEN PRINT"[CLEAR]
I=I-2:NEXT I'KOMT
":GOTO 50'GKVD
1990 IF R$=CHR$(136)THEN 1350'ELMP
2130 IF R$=CHR$(32)THEN 2010'EKDC
2000 GOTO 1950'BEMU
2140 GOTO 2080'BEHA
2010 PRINT"[CLEAR,DOWN,RIGHT5,SPACE7,
2150 GOSUB 2240'BEJB
SHFT CJOLOR [SHFT C]HOICE"
2160 POKE 53280,C:GOTO 2080'CMXE
:GOSUB 2260'CFXD
2170 GOSUB 2240'BEJD
2020 PRINT"[SPACE2JCH00SE F KEY:"
2180 POKE 646,C'BFPE
:GOSUB 2260'CFWB
2190 PRINT"[HOME,DOWN6,RVS,SHFT T]
2030 PRINT"[DOWN4,SPACE3]
HIS IS THE CURSOR COLOR.[RVOFF]
Fl. BORDER COLOR1 1 'BAIC
11' BAMN
2040 PRINT"[SPACE3]F3 CURSOR
2200 GOTO 2080'BEHW
COLOR"'BAYD 2210 GOSUB 2240'BEJX
2050 PRINT"[SPACE3]F5 CENTER
2220 POKE 53281,C:GOTO 2080'CMYB
SCREEN"'BANE 2230 REM'BARY
2060 PRINT"[SPACE3JF7 BACK TO 2240 C=C+1:IF C>16 THEN C=0'GJEF
MENU'"BAYE 2250 RETURN'BAQB
2070 PRINT"[DOWN4,RVS,SHFT S,SHFT P, 2260 FOR 1=1 TO 40:PRINT"[CMDR T]";
SHFT A,SHFT C,SHFT E,SHFT SPACE, :NEXT:RETURN'GIJH
SHFT B,SHFT A,SHFT R,SHFT SPACE] END

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a picture, divide a picture in two, and then trols decide the direction of a gradient fill.
Continued from pg. 34 Unlike DehixePaint II, which can only
switch places with each half of the screen,
Next to the three sliding gadgets are and soften an image by reducing contrast perform a gradient fill in one direction at
the standard brushes and tools. DigiPaint ing edges. The Preferences menu allows a time, DigiPaint can perform gradient
has 12 different built-in brushes and sev you close or open the Workbench screen at fills with respect to both vertical and hori
eral gadgets for drawing lines (including any time. Closing the Workbench will free zontal directions. The net result is that
multi-lined drawings), circles, ellipses, up valuable CHIP memory, which can be you can pick a single point where the ap
squares and rectangles. The final two gad in very scarce supply, especially if you are plied color will be most concentrated.
gets are magnifying and scissors gadgets. working with DigiPaint in the interlaced If you have only 512K, you will find
The scissors option is very flexible because HAM mode. Also under the Preferences yourself severely hampered while trying
it gives you a real pair of scissors and al menu is the Brush Color mode, which al to use the interlace mode, especially if you
lows you to cut out a piece of a picture of lows you to use a custom brush as a draw have a spare screen in the background.
any shape and then use it as a brush. ing shape only and not use the many col Fortunately, one megabyte of memory
The top part of the Toolbox normally ors which may be contained in the custom should be enough to be able to use all of
contains several gadgets. There is a Pick- brush image. This helps you to create drop DigiPainh features without ever running
Color option, which allows you to grab any shadows for a custom brush. into memory problems. You may be
color in the paint area and select it as the slightly frustrated by the amount of wait
current color. There is also a CopyColor ing that occurs when you have just per
option, which will let you replace one of
The Mode menu is the heart formed a drawing action. You have to un
the colors in a register with the currently of DigiPaint. Here are all the derstand that while you are waiting,
selected color. There is also a Fill gadget, DigiPaint is performing some heavy num
which will allow you not only to draw shading modes that allow ber-crunching routines. DigiPaint is writ
filled circles, squares and polygons, but ten in assembly language, which makes it
also to fill in any area (even a closed area
you to mix colors and create much faster than if it had been written in
that has breaks in it because you moved impressive shading effects. C. One good aspect concerning the math-
the mouse too fast). A unique feature in intensive part of DigiPaint is that if you
the top section of the Toolbox is the Again have something more powerful in your
option. This option will allow you to repeat There is one other menu in DigiPainh Amiga than a 68000, you can speed up
the last action performed on the painting menu set. The Mode menu is the heart of DigiPaint tremendously. Even in the case
area. This may sound totally pointless at DigiPaint. Here are all the shading modes of a 68010, which usually speeds up the
first, but when you find out that you can that allow you to mix colors and create im average program by 5-10%, you will enjoy
change colors or even shading modes, you pressive shading effects. The default shad a healthy speed increase of at least 30-
will realize that Again can be a very pow ing mode is Solid, where whatever color 40% when using DigiPaint. The speed in
erful tool. Using both the Undo and Again you use is exactly the same color that ap crease in DigiPaint is enjoyed in all as
options open up a world of possibilities. pears on the painting area. The next three pects of the program (even the simple
One flick of the right mouse button will modes, Blend, Tint and Light Tint aver function of loading a picture from disk is
reveal that DigiPaint also has a complex age different colors together. Blend will executed much faster).
menu set, filled with more features. Digi combine the present color with the newly- DigiPaint can be used to import normal
Paint has five menus: Picture, Brush, Ef applied color in equal proportions. Tint is IFF pictures, including combining several
fects, Mode and Preferences. The Picture biased towards the color already in place pictures into one stunning HAM picture.
menu has BASIC functions, including on the screen; this is always a strict ration The only drawback to importing IFF pic
loading, saving and printing pictures. The of three to one in favor of the screen color. tures is that once they are brought in,
one option in this menu worth mentioning Light Tint is even more biased than Tint. they will forever be stored as an IFF HAM
is the Swap sub-menu. In DigiPaint, you The next seven modes deal with colors picture, DigiPaint does not allow the pic
can actually have two different painting strictly as a set of numbers (in terms of ture to be converted back to a non-HAM
screens in memory at one time. At any the red, green and blue components). The graphics mode.
time, you can decide to copy the current Maximum and Minimum modes compare DigiPainfs manual is easy to under
painting to the background. Whenever the RGB values of each of the two colors, stand, and it comes with three excellent
you copy a painting to the background, and only keep the highest and lowest tutorials. More tutorials would have been
the RubThrough option appears in the top RGB values respectively. Add and Sub helpful, since this product is unlike most
portion of the Toolbox. When you select tract add and subtract RGB values. paint programs for the Amiga.
RubThrough, any drawing stroke that The last three of the seven modes per DigiPaints strength is in the manipula
you perform will not contain the currently form logic operations on RGB values. The tion of colors and shades. One of the rea
selected color. Instead, you will have effec And mode performs a logical AND on all sons why NewTek created DigiPaint was
tively cut a hole in the foreground. What RGB bits. The Or mode performs a logical so people who used DigiView could easily
will appear there is a portion of the picture OR on RGB bits. Xor performs an exclu manipulate digitized HAM pictures. Used
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Merge function to combine the foreground the possibilities of dithering and gradient professional artists. Considering that
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GAME PROGRAMS' by Buck Childress

Kamikaze
After exhaustive research and observa Was that a duck I just heard splash
Duck tion, you found a way to save these mysti
cal creatures from extinction. Others have
down while you were watching the mist?
Speaking of ducks, keep a careful eye on
for the Commodore 64 tried everything—-boards, rafts, fishing them. When they form, they assume the
nets, springs, even ping pong balls. Al color of the mist at that time. Some of
though these items broke the dive of the them dive straight down, while others
Kamikaze Duck, they broke the duck as spin out of control. Some angle toward the
Incredible birds, those Kamikaze well. So, with the passage of time, the oth left, some to the right. But all with the
Ducks! And you, Mallard T. Duck ers gave it up as hopeless. But you, Mal same instinctive drive in their dive ... to
worth, intrepid explorer and renowned ex lard T. Duckworth, did not give up. You bounce off a non-existent lily pad. So stick
pert on our feathered fiiends. have been persevered and figured it out! You'll make out that net and snare them from their in
totally fascinated by these creatures for as a net out of lily pad material, attach it to nocent fate. If you do. they'll grow up and
long as you can remember. Kamikaze the front of your motor boat, go to Lake fly safely away, thanks to your ingenious
Ducks only exist near remote Lake Drake, and rescue as many Kamikaze lily pad net.
Drake, high in the Duckbill Mountains. Ducks as you can. After all. you wouldn't Each night the mist creates 50 ducks.
They are very colorful ducks, with a trans duck your responsibility, would you?! The more you save, the better their
lucent appearance. Nobody knows how Of course, to attempt your mission, chance for survival If you save all 50.
they are bom—only that their existence you'll need to enter Kamikaze Duck. everything will be just ducky.
begins at night, within a strange mist Be sure to save a copy before you run it. By the way, you can only activate the
that haunts the sky above the lake. Even The first bit of gear you need is a joy net 60 limes a night before it falls apart If
the mist fascinates you, with it's ever- stick plugged into port 2. The main gear is this happens before all 50 ducks have
changing shape and color. Kamikaze the game. Now load Kamikaze Duck and foiTned, you can always watch Lake
Ducks have become such an overwhelm run it. The BASIC loader pokes the ma Drake become a giant duck soup. Or. if
ing obsession with you that you're begin chine language data into memory and you can't stand to see the little creatures
ning to speak with a fowl mouth. checks for errors. Once this is done, grab perform a swan dive to doom, press any
Something has you very worried onto your hip boots and go get 'em by typ function key to go to the next night. For
though. Kamikaze Ducks may soon go the ing SYS 49152 and pressing RETURN. that matter, you can duck out and go to
way of the Dodo Bird. Just as baby turtles The realm of the Kamikaze Duck will be another night whenever you v/ant. even if
rush to the sea as soon as they hatch, baby upon you. your net is still working. Be sure to use
Kamikaze Ducks dive toward Lake Drake You'll find yourself in your boat floating your net judiciously.
when they leave the mist. upon Lake Drake. Your joystick (helm) Did you notice the little message board
The mountaineer who discovered the controls the boat and the special net. Push at the top of the night sky? It keeps you
lake, Bill Drake, for whom Lake Drake is the stick forward to move the boat for informed of the number of critters that
named, was the first to witness this phe ward. Pull it back to move in reverse. have Kamikazeed (dropped from the sky)
nomenon. Legend has it that he was ex Push the stick left to turn the boat left. and how many you've rescued, along with
ploring the lake in his canoe at the time. Push right to turn right. Press the fire the number of snares you've attempted
The strange mist passed overhead, a duck button to activate your net. It will appear (remember—60 maximum). It also shows
dove toward him, and the mountains still at the front (bow) of the boat. the highest amount you've rescued in one
echo his famous scream, "Kamikaze It's important to remember the follow night. When all 50 Kamikaze Ducks have
Duck!" ing. Mallard T. Forward is always the di met their fate, good or bad. your mission
Lake Drake used to be covered by lily rection the bow of the boat faces. If the for the night is over.
pads. An amazing occurrence would take bow is left when you push the joystick for Well, Mallard, one last thing. If you
place as soon as a Kamikaze Duck hit a ward, the boat will move to the left. If the need to pause for the cause, whatever it
pad. The duck would instantly be trans bow is right, the boat moves right. The may be, pressing either the SHIFT or the
formed into a full-grown adult and fly same principle applies to reverse direc SHIFT/LOCK key will suspend every
away. Einstein was correct, however. For tion. When activated, the net always thing until the key is released. RUN-
every action there is an equal and oppo sticks out of the bow. It takes a little prac STOP/RESTORE will exit you from the
site reaction. In this unfortunate case, a tice to become proficient at the helm. domain of the Kamikaze Duck. SYS
hit lily pad sinks. New pads have grown, If you look up you'll see that strange 49152 brings you back.
but not quickly enough to keep Lake mist I was speaking of. Notice how it Three cheers for Mallard T. Duckworth!
Drake covered*. Without pads to bounce changes shape and color. And how, with It's a honk of a job and I'm glad you're do
on. the poor little ducks splash down, nev out warning, it may change its direction ing it. But, please don't send me a bill! Q
er to be seen again. or height above the water.

Before typing ilii^ program, read "How to Einter Programs" and "How to 1st- the Magazine CHECKING DATA LINE:":J=49152 DMVO
Entry1 Program" The HASH! programs in thi\ magazine arc available on disk from Loadstar, 20 FOR B=0 TO 11:READ A'EGWB
P.O. Box 500O8,Shtcvcport, LA 71130-0007, 1-800-831-2694. THEN L=PEEK(64)*256+PEEK(63)
25 IF B=0
Kamikaze Duck :PRINT CHR$(19)TAB(31)L:PRINT'MYCP
30 IF A<0 OR A>255 THEN 40'FIWD
15 PRINT CHR$(147)"LOADING AND Continued on pg. 90

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190 DATA 169,0,141,167,197,32,90,195,
35 POKE J+B,A:X=X+A:D=D+1:NEXT B 3 2,2 28,2 55,201,17 07'BWNN
:READ A:IF A=X THEN 45'LVWQ 195 DATA 133,144,13,201,137,176,9,32,
40 PRINT"ERROR IN DATA LINE:"L 189,195,32,213,1474'BWGS
:END'CCVG 200 DATA 195,76,44,192,32,239,194,141,
45 X=0:J=J+12:IF D<2424 THEN 20'GPMM 158,197,32,239,1739'BXOF
50 PRINT"THE DATA IS LOADED..." 205 DATA 194,141,159,197,173,163,197,
:PRINT'CBRH 208,121,173,23,208,1957' BBWL
55 PRINT"SYS 49152 FOR KAMIKAZE 210 DATA 201,47,176,114,173,16,208,41,
DUCK..."rEND'CBNO 1,208,107,173,14 6 5'BWWG
215 DATA 21,208,201,32,176,100,173,0,
60 DATA 169,72,205,174,197,240,8,141,
208,201,32,144,1496'BWDL
174,197,16 9,0,174 6'BWDL
220 DATA 93,201,254,176,89,173,158,
65 DATA 141,173,197,162,0,189,176,197, 197,201,51,240,4,1837'BWVH
157,0,48,189,1629'BWMQ 225 DATA 201,231,208,78,32,239,194,
70 DATA 176,198,157,0,49,189,176,199, 201,112,144,39,201,1880'BYUM
157,0,50,189,1540'BVQM 230 DATA 160,176,13,162,3,142,162,197,
75 DATA 176,200,157,0,51,232,208,229, 160,194,141,161,1671'BYAI

3 2,213,195,32,1725'BWUR 235 DATA 197,76,192,193,174,0,208,201,

208,17 6,9,224,1858'BWCN
80 DATA 68,229,169,0,162,14,157,158,
240 DATA 176,176,11,160,195,76,162,
197,202,16,250,1622'BWON
193,160,201,224,112,1846*BAAK
85 DATA 141,21,208,141,0,208,141,16,
245 DATA 176,228,160,194,140,253,7,
208,141,33,208,1466"BWGS 173,0,208,174,1,1714'BVCO
90 DATA 133,251,133,253,169,4,162,216, 250 DATA 208,141,10,208,142,11,208,
133,252,134,254,2094'BARP 173, 39,208,141,44,1533'BXMK
95 DATA 32,239,194,201,7,176,10,162,0, 255 DATA 208,169,32,24,109,21,208,141,
169,46,129,1365'BUIT 21,208,173,0,1314'BVKP
100 DATA 251,169,15,129,253,230,251, 260 DATA 220,170,41,16,208,5,172,171,
230, 253,208,233,230,2452'BBLF 197,240,3,76,1519'BUBL
265 DATA 114,194,173,163,197,208,3,32,
105 DATA 252,230,254,165,254,201,220,
213,19 5,173,21,168 6'BXOQ
144,223,169,11,141,2264'BBEK
270 DATA 208,45,166,197,208,28,173,21,
110 DATA 32,208,169,15,141,23,208,141,
208,24,109,166,15 53'BXSM
29,208,16 9,4 8,1391'BWLF
275 DATA 197,141,167,197,141,21,208,
115 DATA 141,27,208,169,184,141,3,208, 238,170,197,173,163,2013'BBIS
141,5,208,141,1576' BWDK 280 DATA 197,208,7,169,33,160,48,32,
120 DATA 7,208,169,228,141,9,208,169, 19 6,19 5,173,16,14 34'BVCN
160,162,208,160,1829'BXVG 285 DATA 208,45,166,197,208,77,173,
125 DATA 112,141,2,208,142,4,208,140, 166,197,201,4,208,1850'BXCS
6,208,169,64,1404'BUML
290 DATA 9,173,4,208,174,5,208,76,56,
130 DATA 141,1,208,169,1,141,43,208,
194,173,6,1286'BRIN
162,3,142,40,1259'BTSG
295 DATA 208,174,7,208,56,237,10,208,
135 DATA 208,232,142,166,197,169,7, 201,10,144,4,1467'BUVT
141,41,208,141,42,1694'BXMM
300 DATA 201,230,144,43,138,56,237,11,
140 DATA 208,169,19,141,21,208,162, 208,201,2,144,1615'BWHG
119,160,79,169,160,1615'BYJJ
305 DATA 4,201,240,144,30,169,198,141,
145 DATA 157,112,7,192,128,176,8,153, 2 53,7,169,47,1603'BVFL
0,4,169,5,1111'BRHM
310 DATA 141,23,208,141,29,208,169,33,
150 DATA 153,0,216,169,6,157,112,219, 160,8,32,196,1348'BVIH
136, 202,16,230,1616'BWSJ 315 DATA 195,162,0,160,128,232,208,
155 DATA 169,117,160,197,32,30,171,32, 253,200,208,250,76,2072'BYRM
90,19 5,169,192,1554' BXUO 320 DATA 8,193,173,21,208,45,166,197,
160 DATA 141,248,7,162,202,142,252,7, 240,20,173,21,1465'BVII
232,142,249,7,1791'BVDK 325 DATA 208,56,237,166,197,141,21,
165 DATA 232,232,142,250,7,232,142, 208,173,170,197,201,1975'BAPO
251,7,32,229,195,1951' BWWP 330 DATA 60,144,3,141,171,197,224,119,
170 DATA 173,163,197,240,15,174,172, 208,7,169,203,164 6'BWIJ
197,208,10,141,172,1862' BAFM 335 DATA 162,4,76,161,194,224,123,208,
175 DATA 197,169,129,160,240,32,196, 21,169,204,162,1708'BXEO
195,173,141,2,201,18 35'BYIR 340 DATA 8,141,249,7,142,166,197,173,
180 DATA 1,208,16,32,189,195,32,213, 163,197,208,3,16 54'BVBK
195,173,141,2,1397'BUJM 345 DATA 32,213,195,76,8,193,224,125,
185 DATA 201,1,240,249,32,237,195,173, 208,10,173,249,1706'BWLP
167,197,240,8,1940'BWLR

90 FEBRUARY 1988
Game Programs/Kamikaze Duck
510 DATA 43,224,160,144,16,224,208,
350 DATA 7,201,203,208,25,76,217,194, 176,6,238,10,208,1657' BWD J
224,126,240,11,1732'BWQL 515 DATA 76,100,196,206,10,208,76,100,
355 DATA 173,163,197,208,230,32,213, 196,206,162,197,1733'BYCP
195,76,8,193,173,1861'BXWQ 520 DATA 16,18,162,3,142,162,197,174,
360 DATA 249,7,201,203,208,3,169,0,44, 253,7,232,224,1590'BVGK
169,1,162,1416'BSDL 525 DATA 202,144,2,162,194,142,253,7,
365 DATA 1,32,1,195,173,163,197,208,7, 174,11,208,224,1723'BWQP
169,33,160,1339'BTNR 530 DATA 208,144,35,162,2,142,163,197,
370 DATA 2,32,196,195,76,8,193,32,190, 174,10,208,14 2,158 7'BXFL
224,165,140,1453'BUNN 535 DATA 8,208,162,4,134,254,142/24,
375 DATA 69,141,69,142,69,143,77,1, 212,56,233,32,14 69'BUAQ
208,77,2,208,1206'BSYR 540 DATA 141,167,197,141,21,208,169,0,
380 DATA 96,133,252,134,251,6,251,165, 141,161,197,23 8,1781'BYIN
251,201,9,176,1925'BWIO 545 DATA 168,197,173,163,197,240,61,
385 DATA 243,32,57,195,6,252,208,4, 201,2,240,25,166,1833'BXLR
232,76,27,195,1527'BTUT 550 DATA 254,224,7,144,6,202,134,254,
390 DATA 202,224,255,32,33,195,76,5, 142, 24,212,238,18 41'BWSN
195,208,18,201,1644'BVGP 555 DATA 9,208,173,9,208,201,228,144,
395 DATA 0,240,7,152,56,233,2,76,50, 35,76,198,196,1685'BVJS
195,152,24,1187'BRGT 560 DATA 166,254,224,15,176,6,232,134,
400 DATA 105,2,141,16,208,142,2,208, 254,142,24,212,1839'BXFO
96,141,42,195,1298'BUAH 565.DATA 206,9,208,17 3,9,208,201,205,
405 DATA 141,49,195,141,88,195,72,201, 176,10,206,16 3,1774' BWDT
8,208,2,169,1469'BUCM 570 DATA 197,208,5,169,0,141,172,197,
410 DATA 6,141,54,195,141,81,195,104, 173,160,197,240,1859"BXCP
174,2,208,173,14 74'BVII 575 DATA 9,206,160,197,206,0,208,76,
415 DATA 16,208,168,41,2,96,169,18,32, 69,197,173,159,1660'BVEU
210,255,160,1375'BUKN 580 DATA 197,201,165,144,22,201,169,
420 DATA 5,140,134,2,32,180,195,174, 176,18,173,158,197,1821'BANR
168,197,32,205,1464'BVGJ 585 DATA 201,128,176,11,205,0,208,176,
425 DATA 189,160,17,32,180,195,174, 6,141,160,197,1609'BWWV
169,197,32,205,189,1739'BYGP 590 DATA 76,69,197,174,0,208,173,16,
430 DATA 173,169,197,205,173,197,144, 208,168,41,1,1331'BTPR
5,240,3,141,173,1820'BXMK 595 DATA 240,39,224,101,144,35,72,165,
435 DATA 197,160,35,32,180,195,174, 140,69,141,69,1439'BWIW
173,197,32,205,189,1769'BYDQ 600 DATA 142,69,143,201,64,144,10,201,
440 DATA 160,26,32,180,195,174,170, 100,144,12,56,1286' BWG J
197,32,205,18 9,173,1733'BYLM 605 DATA 233,21,76,19,197,24,105,21,
445 DATA 168,197,201,50,144,26,104, 76,19,197,141,1129'BUNO
104,173,163,197,208,1735'BADR 610 DATA 1,208,104,162,255,232,208,18,
450 DATA 251,32,213,195,32,228,255, 201,0,240,7,1636'BUIK
240, 251,76,75,193,2041' BXEM 615 DATA 152,56,233,1,76,63,197,152,
455 DATA 162,1,24,32,240,255,169,0,96, 24,105,1,141,1201'BTTO
169,49,162,1359'BTRR 620 DATA 16,208,142,0,208,206,165,197,
460 DATA 234,76,241,195,72,32,213,195, 208,40,17 3,164,1727'BXGL
104,162,240,141,1905'BYAN 625 DATA 197,162,192,160,10,73,10,208,
465 DATA 4,212,142,6,212,140,1,212,96, 1,232,141,164,1550'BWMQ
169,0,162,1356'BSQR 630 DATA 197,142,248,7,140,165,197,
470 DATA 23,157,0,212,202,16,250,169, 173,39,208,41,15,1572' BWWM
15,141,24,212,1421'BVYO 635 DATA 170,232,224,11,240,4,224,16,
475 DATA 96,160,10,140,164,197,140, 144,1,232,142,1640'BVVR
165,197,169,2 50,162,18 50'BAIU 640 DATA 39,208,76,49,234,18,30,32,75,
480 DATA 195,120,141,20,3,142,21,3,88, 65,77,73,976'BQUM
96,173,21,1023'BSQO 645 DATA 75,65,90,69,69,68,32,32,32,
485 DATA 208,201,32,176,3,76,142,196, 82,69,83,766'BOCR
17 4,23,208,224,1663'BWGU 650 DATA 67,85,69,68,32,32,32,83,78,
490 DATA 47,144,33,206,11,208,206,11, 65,82,69,762'BODN
208,173,11,208,1466'BWPQ 655 DATA 83,32,32,32,32,72,73,71,72,0,
495 DATA 201,10,144,3,76,208,196,238, 0,0,499'BLHR
169,197,169,15,1626'BWWV 660 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
500 DATA 141,23,208,141,29,208,173,21, 0'BADL
208,76,125,196,1549'BXKI 665 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
505 DATA 238,11,208,238,11,208,174, 0'BADQ
161,197,224,112,144,1926'BAXO

COMMODORE M/GAZINE 91
Game Programs/Kamikaze Duck
830 DATA 0,1,215,0,0,254,0,0,124,0,0,
670 DATA 0,3,192,0,7,255,0,63,255,254, 124,718'BKVM
255,255,1539'BQKP 835 DATA 0,1,255,0,7,255,192,14,124,
675 DATA 255,255,255,252,63,255,255, 224,28,124,1224'BRPS
2 55,2 55,2 54,255,25 5,28 64' BBCW 840 DATA 112,48,254,24,115,255,156,
680 DATA 248,127,255,254,255,255,255, 126,56,252,120,56,1574'BXGP
31,255,254,127,255,2571'BBRS 845 DATA 60,96,124,12,0,108,0,0,238,0,
685 DATA 255,63,255,254,7,255,240,0, 1,239,878'BNFS
31,128,0,0,1488'BRFV 850 DATA 0,0,254,0,0,56,0,0,124,0,0,
690 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 118,552'BJEN
0'BADO 855 DATA 0,0,122,0,0,95,15,248,111,
695 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,48,0,31, 252,240,63,1146'BQFU
79'BDDT 860 DATA 184,224,15,113,192,6,227,0,5,
700 DATA 252,0,127,255,252,255,255, 230,0,7,1203'BQLQ
252,63,255,24 8,2 55,24 69'BYQL 865 DATA 254,0,7,63,0,14,63,0,12,123,
705 DATA 255,252,127,255,224,15,255, 0,8,544'BKQU
254,63,255,2 52,255,24 62'BAIQ 870 DATA 253,128,9,158,192,15,3,112,
710 DATA 255,240,127,255,248,31,255,0, 14,1,248,14,1147'BSFR
3,184,0,0,1598'BSHK 875 DATA 0,240,12,0,248,8,0,80,0,0,0,
715 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,588'BIPU
0'BADM 880 DATA 0,3,0,0,7,0,0,15,0,0,25,0,
720 DATA 0,56,0,0,254,0,1,239,0,0,238, 50'BDYP
0,788'BJBJ 885 DATA 0,57,0,0,51,0,8,98,8,28,102,
725 DATA 0,108,0,96,124,12,120,56,60, 28,380'BJIW
126,56,252,1010'BSIQ 890 DATA 63,254,124,103,255,254,255,
730 DATA 115,255,156,48,254,24,28,124, 255,195,103,255,254,2370'BBCV
112,14,124,224,1478'BXDN 895 DATA 63,254,124,28,102,28,8,98,8,
735 DATA 7,255,192,1,255,0,0,124,0,0, 0,51,0,764'BNUX
124,0,9 58'BMVQ 900 DATA 0,57,0,0,25,0,0,15,0,0,7,0,
740 DATA 0,254,0,1,215,0,0,214,0,0, 104'BFYJ
124,0,808'BKVM 905 DATA 0,3,0,0,0,0,0,8,0,80,12,0,
745 DATA 0,56,0,0,0,0,0,10,0,16,31,0, 103'BEUN
113'BGMQ 910 DATA 248,14,0,240,14,1,248,15,3,
750 DATA 48,15,0,112,31,128,112,14, 112,9,158,1062'BQRM
192,240,3,121,1016'BTAO 915 DATA 192,8,253,128,12,123,0,14,63,
755 DATA 144,1,191,16,0,222,48,0,252, 0,7,63,863'BOER
112,0,252,1238'BRHT 920 DATA 0,7,254,0,5,230,0,6,227,0,15,
760 DATA 224,0,127,224,0,103,160,0, 113,857'BLTM
199,96,3,142,1278'BSWP 925 DATA 192,63,184,224,111,252,240,
765 DATA 240,7,29,252,15,63,246,31, 95,15,24 8,12 2,0,1746'BWBT
240,250,0,0,1373'BRQU 930 DATA 0,118,0,0,124,0,0,0,64,4,2,8,
770 DATA 94,0,0,110,0,0,62,0,3,192,0, 320'BHDM
3,464'BIKO ! 935 DATA 32,64,2,5,8,144,80,65,66,2,
775 DATA 224,0,1,240,0,1,152,0,0,156, 16,144,628'BMUS
0,0,774'BKZU 940 DATA 85,133,71,191,66,23,191,114,
780 DATA 204,0,16,70,1.6,56,102,56,62, 75,210,176,102,14 3 7'BWEQ
127,252,127,1088'BTCR 945 DATA 236,169,20,251,180,183,255,
785 DATA 255,230,195,255,255,127,255, 24 5,95,191,238,187,2250'BAQW
230,62,127,252,56,2299'BAPY 950 DATA 187,124,23,251,118,63,233,
790 DATA 102,56,16,70,16,0,204,0,0, 248,13,251,240,7,1758'BWHR
156,0,1,621'BMER 955 DATA 238,104,5,232,224,7,127,160,
795 DATA 152,0,1,240,0,3,224,0,3,192, 7,255,224,0,1583'BTCV
0,0,815'BKAW 960 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
800 DATA 0,0,62,0,0,110,0,0,94,31,240, 0'BADO
250,787'BLFJ 965 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,252,0,1,254,0,
805 DATA 15,63,246,7,29,252,3,142,240, 507'BGRU
0,199,96,1292'BRSP 970 DATA 1,255,224,49,10,0,113,35,0,
810 DATA 0,103,160,0,127,224,0,252, 240,142,0,1069'BQES
224,0,252,112,14 54'BTTL 975 DATA 16,68,0,16,254,16,17,85,24,
815 DATA 0,222,48,1,191,16,3,121,144, 19,213,220,948'BQQX
14,192,240,1192'BSMQ 980 DATA 255,255,255,255,255,252,127,
820 DATA 31,128,112,15,0,112,31,0,48, 2 55,24 0,63,255,192,2659'BBWV
10,0,16,503'BOXL 985 DATA 31,255,128,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
825 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,56,0,0,124,0,0,214, 414'BHSW
394'BHXP 990 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,63,

92 FEBRUARY 1988
Game Programs/Kamikaze Duck
TAKE COMMAND
63'BCQR
995 DATA 0,0,127,128,7,255,128,0,80, WITH THE NEW
140,0,196,1061'BQPA AND IMPROVED
1000 DATA 142,0,113,15,0,34,8,8,127,8,
COMMAND
24,170,649'BNGA
1005 DATA 136,59,171,200,255,255,255, CENTER
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0,0r0,1268'BNSB
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0'BADE
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Drive Reset ■ 14.95
85,0,0,870'BNHI Till-Swivel Monitor Stand ■ 14 95
Serial Cable ■ 9.95 Data Director
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0'BADC Modem Switch - 9.95

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Telecommunications/Inside G-Link
Continued [mm pg. 62 der, Portfolio, Records, Information and record for tax purposes, Your income from
might also want to scan the already post Analysis menus. Each is selected by en dividends will also be recorded as well.
ed questions and their responses, there tering the screen number of the desired Whatever securities you possess can be re
are always some very interesting tidbits! service. Actually, you can directly access corded and tracked in various portfolios
By the way, this area is stafied by a real li any individual screen within the system you establish within the system. If you
brarian—Dean DeBolt, the associate uni by simply entering the screen number. In own or trade securities not handled by the
versity librarian and head of Special Col addition to the major areas, there's a system, you am manually enter the data
lections at the University ofWest Florida. screen for changing your passwords] ob and include them in your records.
In addition to the message board, taining system news, or viewing on-line As an added benefit, you can also set up
there's also a Library area with informa help. stock and option watches. These are lists
tional files containing tips for footnoting, Each of the menu screens within the of stocks or options that you want periodic
lists of new publications, how to prepare a service includes a HELP entry that pro information about, with all soils of com
bibliography, and other useful informa vides more detailed information on the parisons and analysis available. There are
tion. Watch for more additions to this area features available from that menu. even various analysis features provided
as time permits. There's extensive help information by DYR Associates. They're a registered
The Book Reviews section offers the lat throughout the service. Actually, it took investment advisor providing securities
est information on best-selling books. me almost an hour to read through every research primarily related to the listed op
You'll find lists of fiction and non-fiction thing when I first stalled poking around tion markets.
books that are just coming out, reviews of on the service. All in all, if you're doing any kind of in
bestsellers, and the current hard-cover Overall, the service is very extensive vestment in stocks or options you should
and paperback bestseller lists. and you'll need their documentation to find this to be a very valuable and easy to
The other newly added service I men make full use of the system. Once you get use service.
tioned is the Trade Plus Investment Ser the feel of the system, you'll be able to find Before I close, I just thought I'd mention
vice. When you enter this area you're ac current stock and option prices, condensed the fact that summaries of current and
tually connected to their remote system market overviews, company names and upcoming issues of this magazine are now
via a gateway, just like when using the stock market symbols, company an available on Q-Link in the News & Infor
Comp-U-Store. Once connected via the nouncements and messages, etc. mation section. You should also be able to
gateway, the main menu will show you You can generate stock and option or find reprints of this column in a nearby
the major sendees available. ders to buy or sell securities while online. area as well. As always, if you have any
The Trade Plus Service is divided into Whatever you process while online will comments, questions or hints you can
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COMMODORE MA3AZINE 93
JIFFIES by Buck Childress

LiT Helper
either of these routines as often as you
for the Commodore 64 like, without erasing what's currently in
memory.

Ever been bitten by the '1 know it's When your eyes start getting bloodshot
here somewhere" bug? It's the one from looking at the same old colors, press
that has you frantically scanning all of the "C" key, then RETURN. A menu
your disks. One of them contains that in shows that the "B" key changes the back
credible routine you were going to add to ground color, the "F" key changes the
your latest work of art. But which one? frame (border) color, and the "T" key
Ah, there it is. Better load it to be certain. changes the text color. Each time you
Yep, that's the one. Now all you have to do press a key, the color changes. By holding
is append it to your program and you'll be down the SHIFT key at the same time.
in business ... What program?! Loading you can change colors in reverse order.
this and that wiped it from memory. Oh, Press the STOP key to exit.
the pain! Your inspiration up in smoke! If you forget which key does what, type
Take heart. Lil' Helper is here. Lil' HELP and press RETURN. Lil' Helper
AR1 BAXTER
Helper lets you scan all the BASIC pro will show you.
grams and disk directories you want with by pressing the "L" key, then RETURN. Lil' Helper occupies an area of RAM
out erasing what's currently in 01' Relia When the message "FILE NAME?" ap from 52000 to 52605. Since this isn't BA
ble's memory. Lil' Helper also changes the pears, enter the name (use the DELETE SIC RAM, you can load and save all the
text, background, or frame (border! colors key if you make a mistake) and press RE BASIC programs you want without affect
with the touch of a key. It's super easy to TURN. The list will begin scrolling on ing Lil' Helper (providing they don't poke
use. Here's how: your screen. The CONTROL key slows any data into Lil' Helper's domain).
After saving a copy of Lil' Helper, run it. the listing. The STOP key allows you to Should you want to run a program, it's a
The BASIC loader will poke the machine exit whenever you want (handy for ap good idea to deactivate Lil' Helper first.
language data into memory and check for pending various routines i. To view a disk Press the "Q" key. then RETURN. "OFF'
errors. Now you're all set. Type SYS 52000 directory, press the "D" key, then RE will appear (what a coincidence). SYS
and press RETURN. An "ON" message TURN. Like the list routine, the CON 52000 reactivates Lil' Helper.
verifies Lil' Helper is active. TROL key slows the listing and the STOP Give Lil' Helper a try. It really adds
You can view any BASIC program list key lets you exit at any time. You can use ease to your BASIC programming. Q

Ikfurc typing this program, read "How to Enitrr Programs" and "How Id Use iht MagUlOC 130 DATA 36,133,251,133,254,169,5,162,
Entry Program." The BASIC programs in this magazine an- available on disk from Loadstar,
8,160,0,32,1343'BTYG
P.O. Box 50008,Shreveport,LA71I3&-0007, l-BOOHJl-2694.
140 DATA 186,255,169,1,162,251,160,0,
Lil' Helper 76,23,204,201,16 88'BVEI
150 DATA 76,240,27,201,81,208,18,162,
20 PRINT CHR$(147)"LOADING AND
CHECKING DATA LINE:":J=52000:L=70 20,32,233,204,1502'BVIJ
160 DATA 169,139,162,227,141,0,3,142,
:C=11'FUFN
1,3,76,116,1179'BSGJ
30 PRINT CHR$(19)TAB{31)L:FOR B=0 TO C
170 DATA 164,166,251,76,139,227,32,68,
:READ A:POKE J+B,A:X=X+A:NEXT B
229,162,0,134,164 8'BWVL
:READ A'NCON
180 DATA 198,134,251,134,254,32,233,
40 PRINT: IF XOA THEN PRINTMERROR IN
2 04,169,51,133,212,200 5'BAKN
DATA LINE:"L:END'HFXK
190 DATA 133,252,166,252,169,100,157,
50 X=0:J=J+12:L=L+10:IF L<571 THEN
0,4,173,134,2,1542'BVQN
301ITRK
200 DATA 157,0,216,32,225,255,208,11,
60 PRINT"DATA OK AND LOADED...":PRINT
169,13,3 2,210,1528"BVPF
:PRINT"SYS 52000 TO ACTIVATE..."
210 DATA 255,32,68,229,76,116,164,32,
:END'EDOQ
228,25 5,240,23 5,1930'BXQG
70 DATA 162,17,32,233,204,169,48,162,
220 DATA 201,13,208,11,166,251,240,
203,141,0,3,1374'BUPM
227,170,32,233,204,1956'BYKH
80 DATA 142,1,3,96,134,251,162,3,189,
230 DATA 76,8,204,201,20,208,14,166,
0,2,221,1204'BQNM
251,240,212,32,1632'BVHI
90 DATA 13,205,208,16,202,16,245,173,
240 DATA 210,255,198,251,198,252,76,
4,2,208,85,1377'BTEN
178,203,166,251,224,2462'BBPK
100 DATA 162,59,32,233,204,76,116,164,
250 DATA 16,176,196,157,167,2,32,210,
173,1,2,208,1430'BUTE
2 55,2 30,2 51,2 30,1922' BXAK
110 DATA 72,173,0,2,201,67,208,8,162,
260 DATA 252,76,178,203,169,5,162,8,
24,32,233,1182'BRVE
160,5,32,186,1436'BTSL
120 DATA 204,76,139,204,201,68,208,27,
32,68,229,169,1625'BWUG

94 FEBRUARY 1988
Jiffies/Li'l Helper
270 DATA 255,165,251,162,167,160,2,32, 251,164,2 53,48,5,1840'BWAJ
189,255,32,192,1862'BXPM 430 DATA 168,200,76,215,204,168,136,
280 DATA 255,162,5,32,198,255,32,245, 152,129,2 51,230,251,2180'BBQL
204,32,245,204,1869'BWNN 440 DATA 208,236,230,252,165,252,201,
290 DATA 32,245,204,32,245,204,166, 220,144,228,76,139,2 3 51'BBQM
254,208,4,201,0,1795lBVSO 450 DATA 204,189,17,205,240,6,32,210,
300 DATA 240,23,32,245,204,133,253,32, 255,232,208,245,2043'BXPM
245,204,166,253,2030'BYFG 460 DATA 96,32,228,255,166,144,240,
310 DATA 32,205,189,169,32,32,210,255, 248,104,104,32,204,1853'BYEN
32,225,255,20 8,1844'BXGH 470 DATA 255,169,5,32,195,255,169,0,
320 DATA 3,76,254,204,32,245,204,201, 133,198,76,116,1603'BVXO
0,208,8,169,1604'BTYH 480 DATA 164,72,69,76,80,13,70,73,76,
330 DATA 13,32,210,255,76,40,204,16, 69,32,78,872'BPVO
36,166,212,20 8,14 6 8'BVVJ 490 DATA 65,77,69,63,32,0,32,13,13,0,
340 DATA 32,56,233,127,170,160,255, 79,78,521'BMWO
202,24 0,8,200,18 5,1868'BXAK 500 DATA 0,79,70,70,0,145,66,61,66,65,
350 DATA 158,160,16,250,48,245,200, 67,75,764'BNNG
185,158,160,4 8,6,1634'BWLL 510 DATA 71,82,79,85,78,68,32,32,32,
360 DATA 32,210,255,76,118,204,56,233, 32,70,61,722'BOCI
128,76,69,20 4,1661'BWLM 520 DATA 70,82,65,77,69,32,32,32,32,
370 DATA 76,116,164,32,225,255,240, 84,61,84,720'BOYJ
24 8,32,228,255,201,2072'BYBN 530 DATA 69,88,84,0,13,67,61,67,72,65,
380 DATA 66,208,3,238,33,208,201,194, 78,71,735'BNCJ
208,3,206,33,160l'BUTO 540 DATA 69,32,67,79,76,79,82,13,68,
390 DATA 208,201,70,208,3,238,32,208, 61,68,73,767'BONL
201,198,20 8,3,1778'BVEP 550 DATA 82,69,67,84,79,82,89,13,76,
400 DATA 206,32,208,133,253,162,0,160, 61,76,73,851'BOKM
216,134,251,132,1887'BYQH 560 DATA 83,84,32,65,32,70,73,76,69,
410 DATA 252,201,84,208,6,238,134,2, 13,81,61,739'BOJN
76,202,204,201,1808'BVRI 570 DATA 81,85,73,84,13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
420 DATA 212,208,196,206,134,2,161, 336'BHRM EHU

Software "Farfatics
from any other source (Gary no longer
Continued from pg. 73
works for Activision). Needless to say,
"The reason for returning the
attacked it, while someone else actually Gary was happy to answer all my ques
shipped a disk that their cat had thrown software: their spouses tions. Several days went by, and guess
up on (and they didn't bother to clean it up who calls back again? By the third week,
before sending it). threatened to file for Ryan and I are talking about hometowns,
"Some of the funniest stories I've heard divorce..." jobs, school and anything else that comes
to date have taken place when the com to mind. Did you notice he wasn't asking
pany hired temporary help for the product me any technical questions? Well it just so
support area. Customer calls requesting chased the software thinking it could help happens that the middleman (yours truly)
game hints must sound peculiar to an in him break copy protection. I tactfully in had been eliminated from the chain. I had
dividual who knows nothing about our formed him that Hacker was an adven already spoken with Gary Kitchen and
software and hears only one side of the ture game written by Steve Cartwright. convinced him to answer Ryan's questions
phone conversations. One helper thought He mumbled something for several sec personally. Ryan was delighted with this
we were all insane when she heard one of onds and tried to convince me how happy airangement because it gave him the per
us explaining to a user how to get off the he was to own the game." fect opportunity to speak with one of his
planet Mongo and onto Jubilex (worlds heroes. Well, I never had to contact Gary
found in the 7Vace/- Sanction), while an The Ultimate <(Fan"atic Kitchen again because it simply wasn't
other member of the group instructed Ken Balthaser, Product Supjxtrt Repre necessary. As time went by I actually
someone to hit the thug over the head sentative at Activision: "In May of 19861 called Ryan from time to time to ask for
with the candlestick and run out the door received a phone call from a teenager hav Gamemaker information I can't get
to the east (this scene takes place in Bor ing some difficulties with Gary Kitchen's around here. His help has been greatly
rowed Time). We're lucky she didn't call Gamemaker program. His questions appreciated. Isn't it ironic that a seven
the police and have the entire group put weren't too difficult to answer, but to be on teen-year-old user now knows more about
in straight jackets for a while." the safe side I consulted our resident ex Gamemaker than I do? I still talk to Ryan
Lucy Bradshaw, Product Support Rep perts on the subject before I gave him his E. now and then. He wants to come out
resentative at Activision: "A gentleman information. As days went by, Ryan E. here during his senior spring break to vis
recently called us, wondering why his continued to call, and his questions be it us. I'm still debating about letting him
Hacker program wasn't operating correct- came progressively harder to answer. I fi stay at my place, however, because we all
ly. After a long confusing conversation, I nally had to break down and phone Gary knowabout those spring break party ani
came to the conclusion that he had pur- Kitchen for some details I couldn't get mals. Just kidding, Ryan." g

COMMODORE MAGAZINE 95
128 USERS ONLY by Kevin Owens

128 Variable
You may have accidentally created two
Find variables which you meant to be different,
but aren't as far as BASIC is concerned.
That is what the warning is designed to
Almost every BASIC programmer has prevent. However, if they are entirely
experienced the great hunt for legal. equal, the line number is printed out (if
explanatory, non-repeating variables. It you put a ,0 after the SYS when you ex
can get difficult when the variable length ecuted the program).
is limited to two characters. Also, for those The two major subroutines do the fol
of you who have had Pascal or are just lowing: The first, FINDVAR, finds a vari
natural-born format programmers, it can able, whether the first character is shifted
get tough to keep track of all the variables or not and returns with the text pointer
which have been used so you can declare pointing to that first character. If an EOF
them at the start of your program. Even
for those who aren't too concerned with
Quickly find all of the was encountered, the carry is set upon re
turn so that the main program can handle
format, it is sometimes necessary to keep variables in your BASIC it. How this routine finds variable is quite
track of program variables. simple. All key words are tokenized into a
I have felt these frustrations and decid programs with this fast one or two byte format which have an AS
ed I would like to have something which
routine. CII value greater than 127. Therefore,
would tell me what variables are in my they are easy to check for and skip. The
program, where they occur, and which only other place actual alphanumeric
ones' first two characters are equal, but the second at $FC00. In essence, this pro characters would be used would be in
are unequal otherwise (IE: FANS and gram takes up only SA4 bytes of ROM- REM lines, DATA lines, or in quotes.
FALSE, or LNGTH and LNGHT). So to visible RAM, allowing whatever else you When the program runs across one of
solve these variable problems, I wrote a need for BASIC programming. these, it ignores everything until the
machine language program which will EOLN (end of line), for REM and DATA
perform these functions. Program Analysis lines, or until it reaches a closing quote,
The last two-thirds of Part 1(FIND- for quote mode. Any alphanumeric char
Memory Management VAR.1.0C00) are bank switches, JSR's acter which makes it through these
Unfortunately, because of the inability and JMPs. The main program can see checks signals the start of a variable.
of a machine language program to see this '"jump table," and the jump table can The second subroutine, BUFFER, puts
ROM when it is located in &8ri of avail see ROM. Because of this the main pro the variable pointed to by the text pointer
able RAM, most ML programmers are gram has access to the ROM under which into a buffer. Variables are stored with
limited to the address space $C00-$FFF it is hiding. The first third of this program their type as the first byte and the charac
and S1300-S1BFF (if BASIC is moved up lowers BASIC and loads the main pro ters as the remainder. The type is either 1,
with a GRAPHIC 0 command, $1300- gram, then executes it. 2, or 3 for floating point, integer, and
$3FFF is availablel. Because of this, most Part 2 is the program (FIND- string. When an array is present, 3 is add
ML programs flock to $1300-$1BFF. Mak VAR.2.FC00). The first step finds a vari ed to the current type, giving types of 4,5,
ing use of certain program aids myself, I able, quits if it reaches the end of the pro or 6. With this form of "typing" compari
tried to keep the program out of the way. gram, ur puts the variable in a buffer for sons are shorter, faster, and easier. The
With the program aid I use, it wasn't in later comparison as it prints it out. characters put into the buffer include only
the way, but I know it would get tangled The second step finds a second variable, alphanumerics, not any of the suffixes
up with programs you might be using. I puts it in a second buffer and compares ("%" "$" "{''). Because of this, a variable
have been trying to demystify myself con them. If they're not equal it loops back up may have a character length of 15 i$01-
cerning the memory management on the to the start of Step 2 to keep looking for $0F). If they're longer and the variable is
128 and have been avoiding confronta equal variables. If an EOF occurs 'the end being put in buffer one, buffer two will be
tions with it as much as possible. Howev of the program is found) the text pointer is written over. This is no problem as far as
er, I have overcome that "fear" and have reset to the location of the original vari the second variable is concerned because
put this program out of your way (at the able. An EOF means we've listed all the it isn't in buffer two yet. However, when
expense of a few more bytes). It is clear up line numbers that variable occurs in, and buffer two is used, the end of the first vari
at $FC00 in Bank 0 RAM, never to be it's time to go back up where we were and able will be written over. Also, it is possi
touched. begin searching for another. So after the ble to make a variable so long, that when
At this location, however, programs text pointer is reset, the program jumps it is stored it will end up writing over the
have no access whatsoever to any ROM back to Step 1. MMU ($FF00). This would most likely
routines. Therefore, in order to run a pro Step 3 deals with what to do with the cause the computer to crash. I didn't feel a
gram hiding under ROM, it is necessary variables if they're equal. If the variables check for variable length would be neces
to put all your references to ROM in lower, are spelled differently, but the first two sary because I can't see someone, in BA
ROM-visible memory. So this program is characters are the same, asterisks are SIC, coming up with a variable over 15
in two parts. The first is located at $C00, printed on either side of the line number. characters long. If they do, well, too bad. I

96 FEBRUARY 1988
128 Users 0nly/C128 Variable Find
the length of the number so a return char begin execution by typing:
was too concerned with saving memory acter could be printed if necessary 'to keep BANK 0:SYS DEC("FC00"),X
and execution time, and that would just line numbers from being split between where X applies as it did above, being 0 or
add that many more bytes and cycles to lines). So IJSR the same things ROM no-zero. It does not matter, though, which
the program. does, but I just take a little detour before I part of the program you execute. The rea
This subroutine has another responsi go to the ROM routine which actually son you would not want to execute Part 1
bility — arrays. When an array is found, prints it out. This subroutine actually at $C00 is because it accesses the drive for
it checks to see what the last token was handles printing the warning characters a specific file. You may not have the disk
(that is kept track of by the FINDVAR based on flags set by the main program. with FINDVAR.2.FC00 on it, and Part 1
subroutine). If it was a DIM statement, it This routine is called in only one place in would give you an error when it tried to
prints out exactly what is in the text, ex the program, but it is transportable be load Part 2. the BANK 0 is necessary
cluding spaces, until it reaches a closing cause it is a subroutine. when executing at $FC00 because it is in
parenthesis. If no DIM statement oc RAM. If you were to not put the BANK 0,
curred, tens are printed for every element, Program Execution the computer would try to execute what
since that is what BASIC assumes itself. Type in the BASIC loader program, ever ROM routine is at $FC00.
There are two other subroutines which save it, then RUN it. If everything is cor To list to the printer, before you execute
are called in only one place in the pro rect, both programs will be saved as the program, type OPEN3,4:CMD3, then
gram. COMPARE is the label for the first. FINDVAR.1.0COO and FIND- your SYS. One note on output: whatever
It simply compares the two buffers. If the VAR.2.FC00. Tb execute this program: column mode you are in on the screen will
variables are equal, the Negative flag is BLOAD "FINDVAR.1.0C00" be reflected on the printer. For example, if
cleared (forcing a BEQi. Then if the rea SYS DEC("C00"),0 to list line numbers you are in 40-column mode, the output to
son they're equal is only because of the of variables the printer will be in 40 columns. If in 80-
first two characters, the can1}' will be set or column mode, it'll be 80 on the printer.
(forcing a BNE), and the carry is unimpor SYS DEC("C00"),l to list the variables
tant. The carry is only tested if the Nega only NOTES
tive flag says they're equal. When you press RETURN. FIND- — Variables can not be longer than 15
PRINTLINENUM is the last subrou VAR.2.FC00 will be loaded and then ex characters.
tine. This is heavily dependent upon BA ecuted. If you have a program in memory', — Characters used in DOS commands
SIC for its floating point, integer, and AS its variables will be listed along with line which are not in quotes are treated as var
CII conversion routines. I would have sim numbers (if you used ,0 after the SYS). If iables.
ply JSR'd to the routine which prints out no program is in memory, nothing will — FEMDVAR.2.FC00 will not execute
numbers ($8E32), but I needed to know happen. Once you have run this program, without FINDVAR.1.0C00 in memory. J

Ikfurc typing this program, read "How in Enter Program" and "How to Use iIil- Maga/inc
Entry Program " Thv BASIC programs in ilii* iiugjztni* arc juiUblc un disk fnim Loadstar,
P.O. Box 5000". Shrcvcpon. LA "1150-0007, I-800-83I-2691 Businesses Need An Edge!
Findvar Loader Commodore Computer Owners
100 SCNCLR:PRINT CHR$(18)" C-128
[SPACE2]VARIABLE FIND "'DFTD
[]
Have One.
120 PRINT:PRINT "ENTERING PART I
'C
'CCSD
130 FOR P1=DEC("C00") TO
DEC("CA3")'FGBD
140 READ D$:D=DEC{D$) DISC
^Serial Box=
150 POKE P1,D'BEKB 64 K SERIAL PORT PRINT BUFFER

160 C1=C1+D'CFKD
A SERIAL BOX lets you print one job
170 NEXT Pl'BCDD
180 IF (Cl <> 13810) THEN PRINT while you are working on another.
CHR$(18)"ERROR":END'HOLL
No Waiting.. . More Computing...
190 PRINT "OK"1BACF
200 PRINT "ENTERING PART 2..."; BBOB More Output. . .Good Business.
210 FOR P2=DEC("FC00") TO
DEC("FEC7")'FGVD ONLY SQQ95(suggested list price)
220 READ D$:D=DEC(D$)'DISB
230 BANK 0'BCWA You can dump 15 pages of text in 2V2 minutes
240 POKE P2,D'BELB GEOS'" COMPATIBLE
250 C2=C2+D'CFMD Dealer Inquiries Requeued.
260 NEXT P2'BCED
CALL 1-800-228-7264 FOR ORDERS AND INFORMATION
270 IF (C2 <> 85029) THEN PRINT
IN PENNSYLVANIA CALL (215) 499-7475 OR WRITE:
CHR$(18)"ERROR":END'HOXL
280 PRINT "OK"'BACF
R. J. Brachman Associates, Inc.
P.O. Box 1077 Havertown, PA 19083
290 PRINT:PRINT "SAVING PART 1 AS
Foreign shipping and handling: Canada/Mexico add SS.OD:
"CHR${22)"FINDVAR.1 0C00"CHR$(22) nil others add $10.00.

"...";'EKTR VISA. MC. Check or Money Orders accepted. C.O.D. add $2.50
PA residents add 6<h (PLEASE ALLOW 4 TO 6 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY)

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i mb)«ei to chinjje nvlthDut notice.
128 Users Only/C128 Variable Find
38,E9,1F,A0,00,91,3D'BWJN
300 BSAVE "FINDVAR.1.0C00",B0, ■ 640 DATA A2,10,20,66,FD,4C,C2,FC,4C,
P{DEC("C00")) TO P(DEC("CA4")) 5F,00,20,53,00,A9,00'BWBO
'EPSH 650 DATA 85,0B,85,0C,85,0E,A0,01,B1,
310 PRINT MID${DS$,5,INSTR(DS$,",", 3D,D0,02,38,60,A0,00IBWKO
5)-5)'ERRE 660 DATA A5,43,85,3D,A5,44,85,3E,B1,
320 PRINT "SAVING PART 2 AS 3D,85,43,O8,B1,3D,85'BWRQ
"CHR$(22)"FINDVAR.2.FC00"CHRS(22) 670 DATA 44,08,Bl,3D,85,84,08,Bl,3D,
'■..."; 'DJHL 85,83,18,98,65,3D,85'BWJR
330 BSAVE "FINDVAR.2.FC00",B0, 680 DATA 3D,A9,00,65,3E,85,3E,4O,20,
P(DEC("FC00")) TO P(DEC("FEC8")) FD,20,59,0C,4C,23,FD'BWJS
'EPKL 690 DATA 20,53,0C,D0,06,C9,3A,F0,F7,
340 PRINT MID$(DS$,5,INSTR(DS$,",", D0,B0,A6,0C,D0,F1,C9'BWVT
5)-5)'ERRH 700 DATA 22,D0,06,45,0E,85,0E,10,E7,
350 END'BACC A6,0E,D0,E3,09,80,90'BWXL
370 REM PART 1'BFVF 710 DATA 12,85,0B,C9,8F,D0,04,E6,0C,
D0,D5,C9,83,D0,D1,E6'BWFM
380 DATA 85,8B,20,4B,0C,A9,01,A8,A2,
720 DATA 00,D0,CD,A2,00,09,41,90,07,
08,20,BA,FF,AD,3 2,0C'BWTP
C9,60,90,05,C9,7A,B0'BWYN
390 DATA A2,33,A0,0C,20,BD,FF,A9,00,
730 DATA BF,E8,E0,00,18,60,8A,48,A9,
AA/20,68,FF,20/D5,FF'BWCQ
00,85,0F,A9,01,8 5,BE'BWXO
400 DATA A9,F0,8D,12,12,A9,FB,8D,13, 740 DATA A5,3D,85,87,A5,3E,85,88,E8,
12,A5,8B,20,41,0C,4CIBWVI 20,59,0C,9D,C8,FE,E0'BWXP
410 DATA 00,FC,0E,46,49,4E,44,56,41, 750 DATA 10,B0,03,20,89,00,E8,20,53,
52,2E,32,2E,46,43,30'BWJI 0C,F0,4E,B0,06,A4,0F'BWEP
420 DATA 30,08,48,A9,3F,8D,00,FF,68, 760 DATA D0,48,F0,E8,C9,41,90,0A,C9,
7A,B0,3E,A4,0F,D0,3A'BWKR
28,60,48,A9,00,8D,00'BWJK
770 DATA F0,DA,A4,0F,D0,16,E6,0F,CA,
430 DATA FF,68,60,20,80,03,4C,41,0C,
E6,BE,C9,25,F0,D0,E6'BWAS
20,86,03,4C,41,0C,20'BWOK
780 DATA BE,C9,24,F0,CA,C6,0F,E8,A0,
440 DATA 46,00,40,37,40,20,48,00,20, 01,84,BE,C9,28,D0,1A'BWST
E2, 55,40,41,00,20,4B'BW0M 790 DATA 48,18,A5,BE,69,03,85,BEf20,
450 DATA 00,20,75,80,40,41,00,20,4B, 53,0C,68,E0,10,B0,0A'BWTU
0C,20,32,8E,4C,41,0C'BWAN 800 DATA 20,89,0C,8A,48,20,E7,FD,68,
460 DATA 20,4B,00,20,44,8E,40,41,00, AA,A9,00,9D,C8,FE,68'BWAM
20,4B,0C,20,D2,FF,4C'BWEO 810 DATA AA,A5,BE,9D,C8,FE,60,A9,01,
470 DATA 41,00,20,4B,00,20,El,FF,40, 85,10,A5,0B,C9,86,F0'BWLN
41,0C,20,4B,0C,20,E41BWTP 820 DATA 36,A0,FF,98,48,A2,0A,A9,00,
480 DATA FF,4C,41,0C'BLAI 20,77,0C,6 8,A8,C8,B1'BWWO
500 REM PART 2'BFWA 830 DATA 3D,F0,1B,C9,2C,D0,0C,A6,10,
510 DATA 85,8B,A9,50,A6,D7,30,02,A9, E0,02,B0,F1,20,89,00'BWTP
28,85,41,A6,2D,86,43'BWMK 840 DATA 4C,F3,FD,C9,29,D0,08,06,10,
520 DATA CA,86,3D,86,13,A6,2E,86,44, D0,E3,20,8 9,0C,60,C9'BWPQ
86,3E,20,1A,FD,90,03'BWML 850 DATA 28,D0,DB,E6,10,D0,D7,A0,FF,
530 DATA 4C,D8,FC,D0,09,A9,0D,20,89, C8,B1,3D,F0,1A,C9,20'BWJR
0C,A2,00,F0,09,38,E9'BWMM 860 DAT^ F0,F7,C9,60,90,07,C9,7A,B0,
540 DATA 1F,A0,00,91,3D,A2,10,8A,48, 03,38,E9,1F,20,89,0C'BWRS
20,66,FD,68,D0,DC,A5'BWWN 870 DATA 09,29,D0,05,06,10,D0,El,60,
550 DATA 8B,F0,06,A9,10,85,89,D0,07, C9,28,D0,DC,E6,10,D0'BWYT
A9,50,85,89,20,6F,FE'BWNO 880 DATA D8,A2,00,A0,10,BD,C8,FE,D9,
560 DATA A5,3D,85,45,A5,3E,85,46,A5, C8,FE,D0,08,C9,00,F01BWQU
43,85,47,A5,44,85,48'BWLP 890 DATA 0C,E8,C8,D0,F0,E0,03,90,03,
570 DATA A5,83,85,80,A5,84,85,80,20, 38,A2,18,E0,18,60,A5'BWRV
1A,FD,90,1B,A5,45,85'BWXQ 900 DATA 83,85,64,A5,84,85,65,A2,90,
580 DATA 3D,A5,46,85,3E,A5,47,85,43, 38,20,6E,0C,20,80,0C'BWFM
A5,4 8,8 5,44,A5,8C,85'BWDR 910 DATA 08,48,8A,48,98,48,A0,FF,C8,
590 DATA 83,A5,8D,85,84,4C,1B,FC,08, B9,00,01,D0,FA,C8,98'BWVO
A2,10,20,66,FD,28,D0tBWYS 920 DATA 18,65,89,85,89,A5,13,0A,18,
600 DATA D7,20,51,FE,O0,D2,90,02,E6, 65,89,85,89,C5,41,A9'BWE0
13,A5,8B,F0,04,A5,13'BWDK 930 DATA 20,90,06,88,98,85,89,A9,0D,
610 DATA F0,03,20,6F,FE,20,92,0C,F0, 20,8 9,0C,A5,13,F0,05'BWOP
18,A5,13,F0,06,A9,00'BWIL 940 DATA A9,2A,20,89,0C,68,A8,68,AA,
620 DATA 85,13,F0,B4,20,41,0C,A0,00, 68,28,20,65,0C,A5,13'BWTR
B1,87,18,69,1F,91,87'BWHL 950 DATA F0,05,A9,2A,20,89,0C,60'BXRN
630 DATA D0,A6,20,1A,FD,B0,11,F0,07, END

98 FEBRUARY 1988
128 USERS ONLY by Mark Jordan

The 128 Mode

ScreenSave

Explore the Commodore 128 in its

powerful native mode. Some of
the articles in this column may be
technical, some not so
technical—but we guarantee that
they will spark your creativity.

This month it's time to make that

heading—"Some of the articles in Whenever you wish to use the program, in are what I call variables. In machine lan
this column may be technical"—come immediate mode or from within another guage instead of typing A = 16, we must
true. We will take a dive into the 30- program, simply BLOAD "ScreenSave" first load one of the 6502's three internal
column Video controller device via the and then type SYS 2816 to save a screen. registers with 16 with LDX. LDY. or IDA
machine language monitor. SYS 2823 to retrieve it. (LD = load), then we use STX, STY, or
Don't despair if you're not a machine So, machine language expert or not, STA to store (yep, ST = store) that value in
language programmer. The program dis let's dive in. a memory cell. Old-timers at ML pro
cussed in the article can easily be typed in ScreenSave has four main sections. gramming do this by second nature. But
and used from BASIC, and it is a very use They are: Entry, Variable setup, VCD se newcomers need to get use to this concept
ful routine. But don't skip past the pro tup and VCD register access. By examin of placing a value in X, Yor A, then stor
gram discussion below. The description is ing the code in blocks it is easier to under ing it in some address.
short enough and simple enough that you stand it.
may just find out you are budding ma VCD Setup
chine language programmer. Entry The VCD has 36 internal registers.
First, what this routine—ScreenSave— There are two entry points for Screen- What's a register? It's simply a memory
does: It's an 80 column screen-saver. Put a Save. The first is at 2816 ("OBOO" in hex!, cell that is used by the computer to do
SYS 2816 anywhere you want in your BA the second at 2823 ("0B07"). The first one things. You need a memoiy map to know
SIC program and ScreenSave will instant is for saving a screen, the second for re what each VCD register does (my recom
ly save the entire screen and all its attri trieving. The only difference between the mendation: Mapping the Commodore 128
butes. Then your program can clear the two is that the X and Y registers are by Ottis Cowper. Compute! Books). Ac
screen, create windows, do whatever it switched around. cessing any of these registers is a bit more
wants until the time comes to restore that OObOO a2 00 ldx #$00 complicated than simply poking or peek
saved screen: SYS 2823 will do that. 00b02 aO 10 Idy #$10 ing to them.
Second, what ScreenSave demonstrates: 00b04 4c 0b 0b jmp$0b0b ScreenSave contains two subroutines to
It will show you two things about your This is the entry for a screen save. The do this for you I at 0b45 and Obol). Until
VCD (Video Controller Device): 1) how to X register gets a zero, Y gets loaded with our discussion gets to that point, it is suffi
access its registers, and 2) how fast and $10 (16 decimal) and then we jump past cient for you to know that we must load X
powerful it is. This routine will utilize one the screen retrieve entry. with the register we want to deal with,
of the VCD's built-in routines—Block 00b07 a2 10 ' ldx #$10 then load A with the value we want to
Copy. It lets you copy up to 255 bytes from 00b09 aO 00 Idy #$00 place in that register. Of course, if we're
anywhere in VCD memory to anywhere This is the entry for screen retrieves. simply reading ipeeking) a register, we
else ... and do it fast! You'll see just how Notice that the values in X and Y have don't need to load A. The accumulator in
fast when you're done. simply been transposed. You'll under those cases will return fi-om the subrou
Third, how to type, save, and load stand why later. tine containing the "peeked" register.
ScreenSave: You may elect to type this The VCD setup for a copy operation re
routine in as listed in the brief BASIC Variable Setup quires four steps. First we must tell the
loader at the end of this article, or you Machine language programs have var chip to do a block copy operation. Then we
may want to fire up your computer, enter iables just as BASIC programs do. The dif must tell it where to copy to. Then we
the machine language monitor, and type ference is, in machine language the varia must tell it where to copy from. And final
it in as it appears in the text. It's short bles are simply memory cells. ly, we must tell it how many bytes to copy.
enough that either way isn't a problem. OObOb 86 fc ' stx$fc Ready? Let's tell the chip that we want
The choice is yours. OObOd 84 fd sty$fd to do a copy operation.
If you use the BASIC loader, it will cre OObOf a9 10 Ida #S10 00bl3 " a2 18 ldx #$18
ate a file on the disk called "ScreenSave". OObll 85 fb sta$fb 00bl5 20 51 0b jsr$Obol
If you type it in from the monitor, use the Here we store the X and Y values into 00bl8 09. 80 ora#$80
binary save feature to save from 0B00 to memory cells $fc and $fd. Then we stuff a OObla *a2 18 ldx #$18
0B5D. Name your file "ScreenSave". #$10 (16 decimal) in location $fb. These OOblc 20 45 0b jsr$0b45

COMMODORE MA3AZINE 99
128 Users Only/128 Mode
with #$12 (18 decimal). This register plus why the X and Y registers transposed the
By loading the X register with #S18 (24 the next one 1131 are the two bytes that initial values when we entered at 0bO7 for
decimal) we have selected register 24 in contain the address the VCD will copy to. a retrieve. It simply transposes the source
the VCD. The jump to subroutine S0b51 Our destination depends on whether we and destination addresses, effectively
will read (peek) that register and place its are saving or retrieving a screen. That's transposing the information also.
current value in the accumulator lA). why we set $fd differently for saves and re The VCD needs one more bit of infor
Look at line 0bl8. We have just read trieves in our entry section. Let's say we mation before it can do a copy. It needs to
register 24 in the VCD. Its contents are are saving a screen. Sfd will equal #$10 know how many bytes we want to copy.
now in the accumulator. We don't know its 116 decimal I. When we jump to the sub 00b39 a2 le ldx #Sle
value and we don't care. All we need to do routine at S0b45 we will store this 16 into 00b3b a9 ff Ida #Sff
is make sure that bit 7 contains a 1. By register 12. Then we load the accumulator 00b3d 20 45 0b jsr $0b45
using the ORA instruction, we can do this. with #0, increment X by one. and jump Register 30 <$le) is the VCD register
ORA or's the accumulator with #S80 1128 again to the same subroutine, this loading that must be set with the number of bytes
decimal). If you're not that clear on bool register 13 with 0. to copy. We will copy 255 at a whack.
ean logic, or-ing a number with another Now our destination address is $1000. Thus, we load A with 255 ($ff> and "poke"
number will cause any set bits (l's* in ei In effect the computer is reading registers it into register 30.
ther number to be set in the result. 12 and 13 as one long number. Let's take Now as soon as we do that, the copy
Confused? Consider this: let's say that another brief detour from our program ex takes place. Zap! Two hundred and fifty-
register 24 contained a value of 63 after planation to see why. five consecutive bytes are copied from the
reading it. The VCD addresses a 16K block of source address to the destination.
Here is 63 in binary: 001111 11 RAM which contains screen memory, at Ah. but we wanted to copy a whole
Now here is #$80: 2P9PPP99 tribute memory, some free space, and both screen's worth and the attributes to boot.
Here's the result: 10111111
character sets. Screen memory takes up That's 4000 bytes. No problem. We simply
the first 2000 bytes of RAM. ($0000— repeat our copy operation 16 times.
Only bit 6 isn't set. Now we are assured
that bit 7 is set so we can poke this num
$07fr>. Attribute memory (color, reverse, 00b40 c6 fb dec $fb
flash, underline, and which character set) 00b42 dO f5 bne $0b39
ber back to register 24. Line Obla resets X
to register 24 and jumps to the subroutine takes the next 2000 bytes ($0800—SOffil 00b44 60 its
at 0b45, thereby ''poking" this new value
Next comes 4000 bytes of free RAM. Recall thai $fb was loaded with a value
This is where we want our saved screens of 16 at the beginning. We decrement it
(with a set 7th biti back into register 24.
to go. This area begins at S1000 and con until it reaches zero. Each time until then,
The next subsection of our VCD setup
tinues to Slfff. we simply branch back to $0b39 and reset
routine requires that we select what mem
Now you can see why we set our desti the copy register to do a copy.
ory address we will direct our copy to. Ex
nation address for $1000. This is free You may be wondering why we didn't
perienced ML programmers may be sur
RAM. And there's just enough of it (4K) to have to update the source and destination
prised to learn how we do this for the
hold screen and attribute memory. addresses. That's because the VCD auto
VCD. Novices can learn without bias.
Okay, back to our disassembly discus matically increments the address value in
An 8-bit computer cannot, address any
sion. We now- must tell the VCD where we the address registers each time they are
number that is greater than 255. Still, it
want to copy FROM, that is, our source used. Thus, after each of our 16 255-byte
must be able to send and receive messages
from addresses that range from 0 to
RAM. Well."that should be obvious. We copies, the address register is pointing to
want to copy the screen memory and the the next memory address in sequence. It's
65535. The way it does this is by splitting
attribute memory. Here's how: very handy.
numbers greater than 255 into two bytes.
O0b2c a2 20 ldx #S20
From BASIC you can do this like this: Di
vide your number by 256. The integer re
O0b2e a5 fc Ida $fc Accessing the VCD Registers
00b30 20 45 0b jsr S0b45 It isn't really difficult to poke or peek
sult is your "high" byte. The remainder is
00b33 e8 inx the VCD once you get the hang of it. The
your "low" byte. Normally the 6502 CPU
00b34 a9 00 Ida #S00 following two subroutines do it for you.
places the low byte first, then the high. It
00b36 20 45 0b jsr S0b45 00b45 8e 00 d6 stx Sd600
seems abnormal to us humans who write
Aha! Looks a lot like the previous sec 00M8 2c 00 d6 bit Sd600
our numbers from left to right, but the
tion. And it is. The only differences are: 1) 00b4b 10 fb bpl S0b48
6502 does things that way. The VCD di
we are now addressing registers 32 and 33 00b4d 8d 01 d6 sta $d601
vides numbers the same way but places
(S20 and $21 in hex) and. 2) instead of 00b50 60 its
the high byte first, just like humans do.
storing what was in Sfd. we are storing the This routine pokes whatever value is in
Rather than take too winding a detour.
contents of Sfc as the high byte of our the accumulator into register X. The BIT
let's continue with the program explana
source address. instruction is required because the VCD
tion, I believe you'll soon understand what
If you glance back up to the entry sec doesn't want to be interrupted at just any
two-byte addressing is as you continue.
tion, you'll see that for a screen save, we time. This instruction will wait until it's
OOblf a2 12 ' ldx #$12
stored a 0 in Sfc. Thus, our source address ready before proceeding.
00b21 a5 fd Ida Sfd
is $0000. And that's exactly where our OObol 8e 00 d6 stx Sd600
00b23 20 45 0b jsr S0b45
screen memory begins; S0000. 00b54 2c 00 d6 bit $d600
00b26 e8 inx
Tb review, our source for the copy is 00b57 10 fb bpl $0b54
00b27 a9 00 Ida #S00
$0000 and our destination is $1000. And 00b59 ad 01 d6 Ida Sd601
00b29 20 45 0b jsr S0b45
now the two sets of address registers are 00b5c 60 its
First we select register 12 by loading X set for that. At this point you may realize

100 FEBRUARY 1988

128 Users Only/128 Mode
That's it. You have just learned how to "SCREENSAVE"). Now list something on
This routine simply reads the register perform a block-copy operation via the your screen in blue or yellow. Throw in
designated by X. The result will be in the VCD. If you wish to understand it better, some reverse, some underline, some flash
accumulator. Again note that it must wait now go back and trace your way through ing characters here and there. Now go to
for the VCD before doing the work. what happens when we want to retrieve a some clean line on the screen and type
The reason we are so interested in screen. Remember, the entiy point for a SYS 2816. You've just saved your screen.
Sd600 and $d601 is because they are the retrieve is at 2823 <$0b07). Clear the screen. Type SYS 2823.
only two memory cells in our 128K of non- I told you at the outset that this routine CHHNGGG! There it is, flashing and all.
VCD RAM that both the VCD and the is fast. I tried doing a machine language If you'd like to time it, type NEW and
6502 can communicate through. Don't ask screen save of my own using the 6502 to then type this program.
me to explain why—the engineers who de do all the work. ScreenSave was many 10 T=Tt
signed the machine had their own very times faster. It's too fast for the naked eye. 20 FOR T = 1 TO 100:SYS 2816:NEXT
sound reasons. Test it out. Install ScreenSave (BLOAD 30 PRINT (TI-T)/100: 3

Before typing this program, read "How to Lntcr Programs" and "How id Use the Magazine SCREEN, THEN TYPE "CHR$(15)n
Entry Program." The BASIC programs in [his magazine an- available ■>« disk from Loadstar,
[SHFT S,SHFT Y,SHFT S] 2823[BLUE]
P.O. Box S0008. Shrcn-pori. LA "1130-0007, I-800-831.2694,
'"ENBD
Screen Save 60 LIST'BAEC
10 REM SYS 2816 TO SAVE, 70 END'BACD
2823 TO RETRIEVE'BDCF 80 DATA A2,00,A0,10,4C,0B,0B,A2,10,A0,
20 FOR T=fi TO 92:READ A§ 0 0,8 6,FC,8 4,FD,A9'BWJO
:POKE 2816+T,DEC(A$):NEXT"ITAG 90 DATA 10,85,FB,A2,18,20,51,06,09,80,
30 BSAVE"SCREENSAVE",B0, A2,18,2 0,4 5,0B,A2'BWXO
P2816 TO P2909'CPKG 100 DATA 12,A5,FD,20,45,0B,E8,A9,00,
40 PRINT"[CLEAR,GREEN,SHFT SJCREEN 20,4 5,0B,A2,20,A5,FC'BWFF
[SHFT SJAVE IS IN MEMORY AND ON 110 DATA 20,45,0B,E8,A9,00,20,45,0B,
DISK.""BALL A2,IE,A9,FF,20,4 5,0B'BWUG
50 PRINT"[YELLOW,SHFT C]HECK IT OUS. 120 DATA C6,FB,D0,F5,60,8E,00,D6,2C,
[SPACE2,SHFT T]YPE "CHR$(15)" 0 0,D6,10,FB,8D,01,D6'BWHH
[SHFT S,SHFT Y,SHFT S] 130 DATA 60,8E,00,06,20,00,06,10,FB,
2816"CHRS(143)", CLEAR THIS AD,01,D6,60,EA,EA,EA'BWYI
END

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 Vocalize
Have your Amiga recite
any text file.

It started out innocently enough. My

brother was just another summer camp
counselor too busy—or too lazy—to write
home. So instead of getting a letter in the
mail. I got a cassette tape. You know the
kind: "Super Low Noise. High Energy"
(which means super high noise, low ener you won't hear a peep until you enter a pe must be a pound or equal sign, and any
gy) Saturday night blue-light bargain- riod, question mark, exclamation point or text following the command on the same
basement special from the express check semicolon to finish the "'sentence." You line is ignored. You can actually get a
out lane at a discount store. may end up writing letters which look as "conversation" going between two differ
It was only proper to respond in kind, if the)' were written by someone who ent voices by changing the voice param
but I couldn't get myself to say anything knows how everything is pronounced, but eters back and forth between sentences.
interesting to a tape recorder, so I decided how nothing is spelled. For instance, you When Vocalize runs, it prompts you
to let Amy dictate my letter. Blow the dust might have to write "I wrote to Clod in for the name of a text file (type "0" to en
off the AmigaBASIC manual, shine up Yoorup last Feb-you-wary, but I haven't ter text on the keyboard). If you hit RE
the mouse, roll up the sleeves, and many received an an-ser." TURN at the prompt, the program will
horn's later, voila: Vocalize. Keyboard entry mode also provides an use the default file name "RAM:letter".
Vocalize is an AmigaBASIC program easy way to fiddle with the speech param If you have enough memory, you may
which takes ASCII input from a text file eters and hear immediately what effect a want to copy the speech libraiy files into
or from the keyboard I in "keyboard entry parameter change will have on speech RAM. which will reduce the time required
mode" i and speaks the text using the quality. You can change any parameter's to open these libraries whenever you run
Amiga's built-in voice synthesis capabili current value by giving a "command Vocalize. To do this, type (from CLJ):
ty. The program can dynamically control line:". Start the line with a pound sign (#1,
speech characteristics using the Amiga followed by the parameter number you copy LIBS:translator.library to RAM:
BASIC SAY command. wish to change (a digit from zero to five- copy DEVS:narrator.device to RAM:
You can alter the speech parameters at see the program listing for parameter de
any point in the dictation by inserting scriptions), then a comma and the new Then you must tell Amy where to find
command lines into your text file, or by value for the parameter; don't use spaces. these files by typing (from CLIl:
typing the command lines if you are in If you type "#0.100" followed by
keyboard entry mode. "#4,15000" you get a basso profundo suit assign LIBS: RAM:
Vocalize reads in fines of text, looking able for the Green Giant. You might want assign DEVS: RAM:
for a punctuation mark ending a sen to slow down his speech by typing
tence. When it has found a complete sen "#2.90". When you get tired of the Giant, When you are done using Vocalize you
tence, it uses AmigaBASIC s TRANS type "#0" to reset the pitch parameter to will want to delete these two files and re
LATES function to translate it into a its default, "#4" will reset the "tuning" set the LIBS: and DEVS: logical names by
string of phonemes (simple consonant and parameter, and "#2" will reset the rate. typing (from CLI):
vowel sounds). The program then gives Starting a command line with an equal
this phoneme string to the SAY command sign instead of a pound sign will set a new delete RAM:translator.library
along with the current speech parameters. default value for a speech parameter with RAM :narrator.device
and Amy speaks the sentence. out changing its current value. For exam assign LIBS: SYS:libs
There is always a short pause before the ple, entering " - 2,70" will set the default assign DEVS: SYS:devs
SAY command stalls to produce speech speech rate to 70 words per minute. This
because of the amount ofprocessing in means that whenever you reset param One good method for composing a spok
volved in translating the English text and eter 2 to its default (by typing "#2"), it en letter is to run a simple text editor-
pronouncing the phonemes. By giving the will be set to 70 (the normal default value like Ed—while Vocalize is running in key-
SAY command one complete sentence at a for this parameter, defined in a DATA board entry mode (God bless multitask
time, these pauses fall naturally in be statement near the beginning of the pro ing). You can click over to Vocalize to find
tween sentences. gram, is 165). A default set in this way a good spelling for those words you know
Running Vocalize in keyboard entry will only remain in effect until the pro Amy will mispronounce (like "David" and
mode allows you to experiment with alter gram ends lor until you change it again). "ninety."' which are mispronounced
native spellings for words which TRANS The DATA statements define the default "Daah-vid" and "nin-i-ty"l. After a while
LATES mispronounces. Keep in mind parameter values which will be loaded you'll probably be spelling everything like
that you can type in words and hit RE whenever the program is inn. a second grader, just to be safe. If you edit
TURN until vou're blue in the face, but The first character of a command line "RAM:letter" in your editor, save it peri-

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Amiga Update/Vocalize
paypay" for you Spaniards. That's what your letter when you get to put in:
odically (without exiting the editor I and an "Amigan" accent sounds like—a bit
run Vocalize (hitting RETURN to use the like my French teacher, actually. #2,270
default file name "RAM:letter") to hear One other important piece of informa If you would like a transcript of this let
what your letter sounds like so far. tion: use CTRL/C to stop Vocalize. If it's ter, send nine nine-tee five to. P 0 Box
With a little effort—and a lot of pa reading text from a file, Vocalize will end California, and don't forget the zip.
tience—you can produce some passable when it reaches the end of the file. In key Hurr-ree, operators are standing by.
foreign language. Try "Voolayvoo kooshay board entiy mode you must use CTRL'C Not available in stores, so take advan
ovekmwoh seswohr" for you etudiants de to exit the program. tage of this special one time offer, and
francais, or "dawnday esta la cohsoh deh The best part comes at the end of the order today! Q

Vocalize COLOR 2,3 : PRINT xS; ' Display the command line
COLOR 1,0 : PRINT
DIM voice%(9), de£aultl(9)
GOTO GetlnputLine ' Get next line
INKBD =■ 0 : iNFIL ■ 1 " Constanta
ON BREAK GOSUB Finis
ELSE
BREAK ON
REM Input line is text to be spoken (not a command)
ON ERROR GOTO ErrTrap
IF xS = "" THEN GOTO ContLoop ' Ignore blank lines
REM Find the last punctuation mark on the input line
REM The following voice parameters for the SAY command
FOP i=LEN<xS) TO L STEP -1
REH determine the characteristics and sound quality of the
cS-MIDS{xS,i,l)
REM speech. Note that the FIRST parameter is number 0,
IF cS = "."OR cS=";"OR cS«"l"OR cS="?"THF-N GOTO FoundPunct
REH NOT number 1 !!
NEXT i

DATA If!0 10 Pitch 65-320 Hertz REM No punctuation mark: add this text to buffer
DATA 0 *1 Inflection 0/1 (on/off) HEM and check next line foe punctuation
DATA 165 •2 Rate AO-iaa words/min bufS - bufS + " " + x$
DATA 1 #3 Gender 1/0 (M/F) GOTO ContLoop
DftTA 22800 14 Tuning 5008- END IF
DATA 6< #5 Volume B-$4
DATA 111 <channel> REM Found a punctuation mark in the input line:
DATA 8 SEM now speak the text in the buffer and input line,
DATA 0 <control> REM up to the punctuation mark.

REM Read in initial (default) voice parameters FoundPunct:

FOR i=0 TO 8 txtS » bufS + " " + LEFTS(xS,i)
READ x GOSUB SayTxt
voice*[i) ■ x : defaultl(i) = x REM The buffer now becomes the remainder of the input
NEXT i REM line which wasn't spoken [after the puncC mark).
bufS - MIDS{xS,i*l)
REM Determine whether text will be read in from a REM CONTINUE: if reading text from a file, check now
REM sequential file or typed in on the keyboard REM for End-Of-File. If reading fron keyboard, go back
COLOR 3,8 REM for another line of text.
INPUT "Type 0 to use keyboard, or enter file name? flnaroS
IF flnamS="9" THEN ContLoop:
in = HJKBD ' Use keyboard input IF in-INKCD THEN GOTO Get Inputt.ine ' Keyboard input
ELSE IF NOT EOF(l) THEN GOTO GetlnputLine ' File input
in • INFIL ' Use file input
IF flnam$="" THEN ' If no filename, use SEM If any text is left in the butter, say it now
flnamS = "RAM:Letter" ' default filename IF LEN (bufS)>l THEN
END IF txtS - bufS
OPEN flnamS FOR INPUT AS #1 ' Open file GOSUB SayTxt
END IF END IF
bufS = ""
PRINT Finis:
REM Control also passes here on CTRL/C
REM Read the nent line of text (from file or keyboard) IF in-INFIL THEN CLOSE 1
GetInputLi ne: COLOR 2,3 : PRINT " Bye ") : COLOR 1,0 : PRINT
IF in-INFIL THEN ' Input from file END
LINE INPUT U, xS
ELSE REM SUBROUTINE to print i speak the English text in txtS
COLOR I,fl SayTxt:
PRINT "? ";: LINE INPUT xS ' Input from keyboard REM If text is longer than 77 characters, display it
END IF REM on wore than one line.
COLOR 3,0
REM Is this line a COMMAND line? prtS ■ txtS ' Make copy of string to print
HEM If the line begins with a "I" or an "•" then process it WHILE LEH(pttS) > 77 ' Find a space in string
REM as a "command" line instead of tent to be spoken. sp - 77
REM (2,300 means change parameter 2 to 380 WHILE MIPS (prtS,sp,l)O" " AND sp>0
ovw S4 means reset oatam 4 to default value sp - sp-1
REM "l,fl means set new default for param 1 to B WEND

REM =5 means set new default for param 5 to IF sp=B THEN sp = 77

REH param 5's current value PRINT LEFTS[prtS,sp| ' Print chars up to the space
REM -— Note Chat the "*" or M=" must be the FIRST prtS « MIi:S(prtS,5p*l) ' Process remainder of string
REM character on the line. Any characters foil owing WEND
REM the command on the name line are ignored. tf you IF prtS>"M THEN PRINT prtS' Print rest of string
RSM give a parameter value, you must use the comma.
103 phonS - TRANSLATES ItxtS)' Translate english to phonemes
cS ■ LEFTS (xS,II ' Check fir3t char in line 2H0 SAV phonS, voice* ' Pronounce pheneme string using
IF cS="#" OR c$'"=" THEN REM current voice parameters
REM Chjnge a current or default speech parameter RETURN
IF bufSO"" THEN ' If there is text in buffer,
txtS = . .. : ' speak it before changing para.-n HEM Routine to trap and handle BASIC errors
GOSUB Say • ErrTrap:
bufS="" " Now buffer is empty COLOR 2,3
END IF IF in-INFIL THF.N CLOSR |1 ' Close input file, if open
p ■ VAL(MIDS(xS,2,l)J ' p = which pararn * to change PRINT " ERROR ";
IF MIDS (xS,3,1)<>"," THEN ' If no value is given, then IF ERR=5 AND ERL"103 THEN
v = default%(p) ' set param to its default value PRINT ": translator,library is not in LIBS: directory! "
IF cS="=" THEN v=voice%(p) ' (Use current value) ELSEIF ERR=5 AND ERL=200 THEN
ELSE PRINT ": narrator.device is NOT in DEVS: directory! "
v = VAL(MIDS(xS,4)) * Use the given value ELSE

END IF COLOR 1,0

ON ERROR GOTO 0 ' Turn off error trapping
IF cS-"t" THEN RESUME ' Re-cause same error
voice* (p) ■ •■ ' "I" Change current parameter END IF: ' so BASIC will display line
ELSE
default!(p) ■ ■ "•" Set default value COLOR 1,0
T.H'J IF END

COMMODORE MAGAZINE 103

AMIGA UPDATE" by Graham Kinsey

Amiga Public
Domain
Update

This month I was able to obtain Fish

disks 91 through 102 for review, but
all the important programs have come
from elsewhere. The gems this month
are Snipit, a program which allows you
to cut and paste between any two Amiga
programs and Wordwright, a full-featured
word processor. Also this month I talk
about the ARP project, a replacement environment. Some of the options include Western Digital 1002-05 controller card.
for the AmigaDOS commands. P'or each controlling how long the computer is al Some hard disk caching is built into the
program, the author is given along with lowed to think, move suggestion, and driver. Plenty of source code is provided,
the Fish or AMICUS series number (if ap switching sides. You can save games in along with a cmde ASCII schematic for
plicable). I do not keep track of which pro progress to disk. Unfortunately, this chess hooking up the Western Digital controller
grams are available on PeopleLink since game will not allow all possible legal card to the Amiga 86 pin bus.
virtually all of the programs mentioned in moves at all times (although rare).
this column are available for download in QUa.se: by Kevin Harris (Fish 98)
the libraries in the Amiga Zone on Peo Hiu-khcnrh: by Bill Kinnersley (Fish 96) Here is an easy-to-use database pro
pleLink (if not by the time I write this, When you run this program, it appeal's gram, that is designed for addresses and
then certainly by the time this column is to be a replacement for the Workbench phone numbers. You can actually use this
published!. When a public domain pro program itself, although it is not intended program to manage any database, so long
gram has been classified us shareware, to be. The primary purpose for Hackbench as your database needs to store a maxi
this is also mentioned with the suggested is to allow programmers to explore the in mum of five fields per record. QBase opens
amount. ner workings of a Workbench-like pro up a colorful custom screen, with lots of
gram. Hackbench does not support all the custom gadgets. QBase can only handle a
Parse: by John Olson (Fish 92) functions of Workbench, such as the For maximum number of 200 records per file.
This is an expression parser. It will han mat and Info menu options.
dle many trigonometric functions, and Berzerk: by Leo Schwab (Fish 100)
some transcendental functions. Label: by Mike Hansen (Fish 96) Short for "The Dream Goes Berzerk."
Label is a simple program for printing this is the now-famous animation demo
IFF2PS: by William Mason and Sarn address labels. You can print up to five done by none other than Leo Schwab (the
Paolucci (Fish 94; Shareware: $151 lines, with a maximum of 24 characters father of graphics display hacks on the
This utility converts any IFF picture to per line. One of the menu options allows Amiga). Although I don't personally feel
a PostScript-compatible file. You can you to test for correct label positioning. that Berzerk has replaced Juggler as the
specify how many shades of gray lup to best graphics demo on the Amiga. Ber
256) will be used to represent the IFF im 1'opupMenu: by Derek Zahn 'Fish 96) zerk is clearly the best animation I've
age, as well as whether the PostScript im Here is a demo and matching source seen that was done with VideoSaipe 3-D.
age will be positive or negative. You can code that demonstrates how to implement Be warned, this demo requires one mega
send the PostScript file directly to the ser pop-up menus that are Intuition compati byte in order to ran.
ial port, which allows you to immediately ble. Many changes in the use of the
piint the file on a PostScript-compatible IDCMP Hags are made for this to work. CirPlane: by Thad Floryan (Fish 101)
laser printer hooked to the serial port. For those of you who own VideoScape
TimeRam: by Bruce Tkkahashi (Fish 96) 3-D, here is an extra shape generator. Cir
Record-Replay: by Alex Livshits and If you would like to test the speed of dif Plane will create a circular plane. This
J-M Forgeas (Fish 95) ferent memory boards, or test the speeds could be used to cap a cylinder, create a
Similar to Journal (reviewed in the De of memory inside the different mode! trashcan lid or represent the sun.
cember '87 installment), this program also Amigas. this program will test the speed
l-ecords Amiga sessions 'both mouse and of either the FAST or CHIP memory in a IconAssembler: by Stefan Lindahl
keyboard input I, and then can play back a machine. This tester disables multitask (Fish 101; Shareware: $5)
recorded Amiga session. ing while it runs. IconAssembler will allow you to edit
any icon, by replacing the icon image lor
Chess: by Bob Leivian (Fish 96) Ilddriver: by Alan Kent (Fish 98! images, if an alternate image is already in
A port of a chess game tram the Unix This is a hard disk device driver for a place) with any IFF brush file. If the file

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Amiga Update'Amiga Public Domain Update MUST SELL!
automatically fetch a disk's file directory
contains more than two bitplanes, the ex when you insert a disk. This program will
tra bitplanes will be discarded. work just fine with the Workbench, open
ing its own window when you first call it.
MicroSpell: by Daniel Lawrence
(Fish 101) Dominoes: by Brian Moats
This spelling checker has only a 43.000- A very nice dominoes game, that was
word dictionaty. It is designed to be used written in Modula-2. Dominoes uses an
with the text editor Emacs iversion 3.9 oversized playing field that you can scroll
and above). Multiple dictionary files are through. Speech and animation liven up
allowed. MicroSpell has features like glo the game. Both on-line help (via a text
bal replace, case support, and a default re file), and a limited tutorial help you to un
placement option. derstand the game. A cribbage board is
used to keep score. The computer can give
MAT: by Pete Goodeve iFish 102) you a hint, and you can force the comput
MAT is a complicated and full-featured er to play out of turn. KENSINGTON
program that performs pattern-match ing
and related functions on text files. It can MacGag: by John Hodgson
SURGE PROTECTOR
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read or seek tests on your floppy drives. AmigaDOS. Ned will replace the 1> A pi >:_

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If you hate to type "dir" every time you SDBackup: by Steve Drew Phone-

need a listing of files on a disk. Dirwin will SDBackup is a nice hard drive backup Sign He

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low. the drive will not be able to read any (both acting on numeric and string varia
program. It can not only perform a backup floppy disk at all. You may be forced to bles) when creating a document with mail
ofjust new files that have been created reboot due to increasing the step rate merge features. Comparisons and condi
since the last backup, but also can back too much. tional statement (of the IFTHEN ...
up only files that have been modified ELSE ... ENDIF type) can also be used
created since a certain date. The program Tartan: by Dick Taylor with the mail merge capabilities. Word
will allow you to format floppies while in Taitan is an AmigaBASIC program wright uses color to highlight text and
the progress of a backup. It can create a that lets you create Scottish plaid patterns commands. The mouse can be used to con
log of backup files. It uses a modified Lem- on the screen. Taitan can accept up to 20 trol the cursor. Wordwright commands for
pel-Ziv method for file compression, al lines of color and width information for draft and letter quality print mode, and
though you can tell SDBackup to not per various tartan patterns. Tartan works italics, underlining and bold type are all
form any compressing, which is extremely with 16 colors, which can't be changed supported, as well as subscripts and super
useful if you are backing up files that are from within the program. Once you create scripts. A calculator (that can operate in
already compressed (for example, if you a pattern you can edit or delete any single Hexadecimal mode as well as decimal)
are backing up the upload download file of line. Tartan does not have a save feature. and a memory dump program are part of
a bulletin board). SDBackup has been pro the utilities package. A screen-saver is
grammed to handle possible errors I like SClockj by David Lauri also built into Wordwright, and can be
read errors on the hard drive or the Yet another title bar clock. What makes controlled from the Utilities window.
backup floppies). SClock unique is that it will always ap Since Wordwright requires large blocks of
pear on the active screen, even if it is a contiguous memory, you may find it tough
Snipit: by Scott Evemden custom screen. This allows you to have a to inn, especially if you have only 512K of
Snipit implements one of the features clock viewable in many programs that memory and/or have been njnning many
possible on the Amiga that hadn't been would not otherwise allow such a program programs iwhich could fragment memoiy)
made available by most programs: cut to appear on its screen. prior to loading Wordwright Wordwright
and paste between any two windows or comes with a huge manual (huge due only
programs! There are a couple of examples Chinese Checkers: by Jimbo Barber to its vast number of features), which can
ofprograms that do allow cut and paste A great game of Chinese checkers. Up be automatically accessed at any time via
between programs. One example is the to six people can play, and if you have less one of the function keys. The manual, of
Janus software that controls the Amiga than six human players, computer oppo course, has an outline already built into
2000 Bridgeboard. Janus allows you to nents will fill any empty chairs. The game the text file, which makes browsing
perform cut and paste between IBM pro has some nice graphic displays, including through it a delight. If you must have a
grams running on the Bridgeboard and an optional fantasy background for the word processor, but don't want to pay a
Amiga programs. A rare example of cut Chinese checker board. You must have hundred dollars or more for a commercial
and paste possibilities with Amiga soft more than 512K of memoiy in order to package, or are frightened by the lack of
ware comes from Micro-Systems Soft run this game. Chinese Checkers is a user-friendliness in most public domain
ware's line of business programs {Online!, compiled AmigaBASIC program. This text editors on the Amiga. Wordwright
Scribble.', Organize! and Analyze!). But means that you don't have to load Amiga may look fantastic to you!
Snipit allows you to peifonn cut and paste BASIC, but it must be available (i.e., the
operations between any two windows. Se Extras disk needs to be in a drive) for the QuickFlix: by Jeff Kunzelman,
lected text to be cut is always highlighted. program to load. Rodney Iwahina and Takeshi Suganuma
There are some restrictions. The most im (Shareware: $10)
portant restriction is that Snipit can only Wordwright: by RTL Programming Aids This is a slide show program for IFF pic
work with console windows, not windows Wordwright is a one-of-a-kind program tures. What is most important about
that are controlled by Intuition directly. as far as Amiga public domain programs QuickFlix is that is loads as many IFF
For example. Snipit will not work with go. There has never before been a pro picture frames into memoiy as possible at
programs like \T1OO (Dave Wecker's ter gram in the public domain that even one time, unlike most IFF slide show pro
minal program i and Blitz (text displayed comes close to posing as a full-featured grams which load in only one picture at a
Some programs that Snipit will work with word processor 'There has always been time. QuickFlix implements its own cach
include the standard CLI land also a CLI continual growth in the area of public do ing scheme (Warning: Don't use Add-
altered with Conman), Ed, and the termi main text editors for the Amiga, but even buflers or ASDG's FACC while using this
nal program AMIC. Snipit remains in the half-decent word processors have been an slide show program!). This allows you to
background by default, and will sleep extremely rare find in the Amiga public flip between IFF "pages" fast enough to
peacefully inside your Amiga until you domain arena). simulate animation. Obviously the limit
decide to use it (so that you can easily in Wordwright is designed as an integrat ing factor on how much animation is real
stall it as pail of your Amiga environment ed package, with its four main compo ly possible with a program like this is how
via the startup-sequence file). In short, an nents being a word processor, a mail much memory you have. One of the sup
other wonderful addition to your Amiga! merge feature, an outliner and a set of plied slide show animations requires 1.5
general purpose utilities. Wordwright sup megabytes of memory in order for all the
Speedup: by Mathias Kegelmann ports both macro capabilities and math frames to be loaded in at once. QuickFlix
This program can speed up floppy disk functions within the text. You can auto supports all Amiga graphics modes (with
access time. It does this by allowing you to matically generate an outline from your the possible exception of interlaced HAM),
increase the step rate of the read head. Be text, and then easily flip between the text It also suppoits overscan, for a true video
warned that if you set the step rate too and the outline. You can create formulas image. QuickFlix will support IFF color

106 FEBRUARY 1988

Amiga Update/Amiga Public Domain Update WE WONT PAY YOUR TAXES!
Fonts). The ARP disk contains replace Bui TAX MASTER will help you compute them mots
QUiCKLY and EASILY Be Ihe Mailer of your Income

cycling if the pictures contain color cycling ments for many of the AmigaDOS com Taxes wiin TAX MASTER, now available lor your 19S7
Federal Income Taxes tor Ihe C64/C12S with Single,
information. QuickFlix supports both in mands, like CD, RENAME, INFO and twin, or auai disk drive and optional printer.

ternal triggering and external triggering ASSIGN. These replacement commands ■ NEW Tai laws are covered
• FORMS 1040. 4562. fc Schadulti A, B.C. D, E, and F.
(via a joystick hooked up to the second are written in C. One of the net results of • PERFORMS all arithmetic CORRECTLY.

mouse port) for changing the current pic being written in C as opposed to BCPL is • EASY CHANGE Of any entiy with automatic RECAL
CULATION of the entire form.
ture being displayed. that the replacement commands are much • TRANSFERS numbers between forms.
• CALCULATES your taxes and REFUND. Tax tables
smaller and faster. All of the replacement are included.

The Sculpt 3-D Animations: commands are extremely backwai-ds com • SAvES ail your aata to aisx foi future cnanges
• PRINTS the data from each form.
by Eric Graham, Ken Offer and patible, so that you won't be forced to re- • CALCULATOR function is built in.
• DISCOUNT coupon toward the purchase of nexl
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The contents of this very important the way it is now. Many new features have TAX MASTER (DISK ONLY) ONLY 130.00

demonstration disk actually needs to be been added to the replacement com TIRED OF SWITCHING CABLES?
discussed in two different parts. mands. For example, in many cases you VIDEO MASTER 128 provides conlmuoul 80 column color
i RGB 11 90 column monocvome inQ audio out Soitcn between

First, there are three different anima can now use wildcards "*.*" in addition to 80 column monochrome ana 40 column cok» tor compojite
monitor Uieupto* monitor* at once' Includes composite cable

tions on this disk all created the same way AmigaDOS' pattern matching "#?". You VIDEO MASTER III totCommodonUI U9.99

as the incredible Juggler demo. One ani can also use wildcarding and/or pattern
matching to specify multiple filenames in
FED UP WITH SYNTAX ERRORS?
mation shows a wire-frame model of an F-
HELP MASTER U pionicw Instinl On-LineHelp screens lor all
15 fighter jet being rotated in all three di commands that previously didn't support 60 BASIC commands when you nned them Takes no BASIC
RAM No interference with loading, saving, editing, or funning

mensions. There is also a superb ray- these features (like the RENAME com BASIC programs Includes 368 page BASIC rsferer>ca teit. rrrars
HELP MASTER 84 ImComtnodOMM W4.W
traced HAM animation of a rocking chair mand). You can now use many more spe
rocking back and forth. These first two cial escape and control characters as input OTHER MASTER SOFTWARE ITEMS
were both created by Eric Graham, the or output to and from various devices. For RESET MASTER G64 r.■-,..■ nrtttfl wiln 2 serial poni
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en,
t S.M

creator of Juggler. But the best animation example, you can now send control codes MODEM MASTER user pert sitenoer j: j -£. witn resel 134. M
Y-NOT7 6-tooi serial Y caoe. t male 2 female comedos 11S.W

on this disk is Kahnankas by Ken Offer. directly to your printer via the echo com T-TE5! 6-foot ssrul V cable. 3 mil* connectors
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115 00
t B.OO
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Sand for Fr»» Catalog
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in the middle.) This animation is the first tually be replaced.
I've seen to seriously challenge Juggler
for the title of best graphics demo on the The number of new public domain pro
Amiga. grams for the Amiga is always increasing.
I did say that there are two parts to this Of course there will also be many other
MASTER COMPUTERS
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mation out of them. This now means that month to Jeff Kunzelman (author of
LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE
we all can create ray-traced images with QuickFlix), who is the first person to send IN YOUR SPARE TIME
Our independent study program allows )ou
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Tips & Tricks/64 and 128
course, so computer users and software writers couldn't unwit
Continued from pg. 16 tingly foul it up. But the designers also knew that software writ
82 DATA 248,063,255,252,127,255,254, ers would want to change certain pails of the operating system
127 to make the computer more useful with their software. So they
83 DATA 255,254,127,255,254,255,255, set aside certain areas of RAM, which can be changed by the
255 user, to hold these special parts of the operating system. When
84 DATA 255,255,255,255,255,255,255, the computer is powered up, the ROM program writes these
255 parts to RAM, then uses them whenever they're needed.
85 DATA 255,127,255,254,127,255,254, When you make those mysterious POKEs. such as the ones to
127 disable the LIST command, you're really making minor changes
86 DATA 255,254,063,255,252,031,255,
to the RAM part of the operating system. In most cases, you're
248
actually redirecting execution to a new location: it's very similar
87 DATA 015,255,240,001,255,128,000,
to changing the line number in a BASIC GOTO statement.
000
Louis F. Sander
88 DATA 000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Pittsburgh, PA

B-i Restore Disable: Here's a nice one for program protection

LIST disablers: You can disable the LIST command on the 64 by fans. Add these lines to the beginning of your 64 program, and
executing these statements: neither the STOP RESTORE key combination nor the reset but
POKE 774.183 : POKE 775.163 ton will work. Tit it.
To undo the change, execute these: Mete Kesen
POKE 774.26: POKE 775.167 Ankara, Turkey
On the 128. disabling LIST is even easier. Just execute:
POKE 774,139 0 REM C64 RESTORE DISABLE - METE KESEN
To enable the 128 LIST command again, execute: 1 FOR J=32768 TO 32776:READ K:POKE J,K
POKE 774,81 :NEXT
After LIST has been disabled, the program in memory can be 2 DATA 167,2,167,2,195,194,205,56,48
run but cannot be listed. 3 FOR J=679 TO 687:READ K:POKE J,K
:NEXT
Jerry Jordan
4 DATA 238,33,208,238,32,208,76,167,2
Middlefield, OH

Disabling STOP and RESTORE: On the 64. POKE 808.225

will disable these keys, separately or in combination. POKE (>1 program protection: Here's a technique that hides a 64 pro
808,237 will enable them again. gram so it cannot be listed. It also disables the STOP and STOP
On the 128, POKE 808,103 disables STOP and RESTORE, RESTORE keys. The technique is permanent, so if you ever
want to list or edit your program, save a copy before protecting
while POKE 808.110 enables them again.
it. Also, the protected program cannot use lines 0,1 or 2. The
Many Contributors
first step is to add this special line 2 to the program:
Many Cities
2 POKE 4;iPEEK<2049i: POKE 44.PEEKi2050>: POKE
808,234
Disabling SAVE: On the 64. you can disable the SAVE com
Then replace all END's and exit points with:
mand byexecuting POKE 818.32. POKE 818.237 enables SAVE
POKE 43.1 : POKE 44.8 : POKE 808,237
again.
Next, add this line:
On the 128, SAVE is disabled by POKE 818.1 and enabled by
1 REM •■"ILEFT. INSERT 20, DELETE 10. SPACE 10.
POKE 818.78. Since the STOP RESTORE combination also en
RIGHT} NO FAIR PEEKING! [SHIFT L]
ables SAVE, you may want to disable STOPRESTORE as well.
Finally, type this:
Many Contributors
POKE 2051,255 : POKE 2052.255 <retum>
Many Cities
John Ettinger
What are those POKEs, anyway? Many newcomers are mys Warren, OH
tified by the use of POKEs to disable or change various features
of their computers. The POKE magic seems powerful, but arbi Directory Basher: This nitty program will make your disk direc
trary and unknowable. tory unlistable. even with the "$" command from DOS 5.1 or the
Most of the POKEs merely change some memory location in Fastload cartridge. As an added feature, it lets you restore a
the operating system. If you know about machine language pro bashed directory to its normal state.
gramming, you've probably dug deeply into that subject, so the Thong Nguyen
POKEs are not too mysterious. But if. like most computerists, Panama City. FL
you're still struggling with BASIC, you're totally in the dark.
Well here's a brief explanation: 100 PRINT"[CLEARJDIRECTORY BASHER -
Your computer's operations are very intimately controlled by THONG NGUYEN":PRINT
built-in software called the operating system. This machine lan 110 PRINT"(B)ASH OR (U)NBASH
guage program is permanently stored in ROM 'Read Only DIRECTORY?

Memory), where it's activated whenever the computer is 120 GET A$:IF A$="B"OR A$="U"THEN 140
130 GOTO 120
powered up. The designers put this critical software in ROM, of

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Tips & Tricks/64 and 128
2 50 M$=MS+CHR$(160)+CHR$(20)+CHRS(20)
140 OPEN 15,8,15:OPEN 5,8,5,"#" 260 M$=M$+CHR$(18)+X$+FS
150 PRINT#15,"U1 5 0 18 0" :M$=LEFT$(M$,19)
:IF AS="B"THEN 170 270 RETURN
160 FOR X=l TO 6:M$=M$+CHR$(160):NEXT
:GOTO 190
170 FOR X=l TO 3:M$=M$+CHR$ (20) -.NEXT Modem speed dialing: Owners of pulse dialing modems are
180 M$=MS+CHR$(141)+CHR$(31)+CHRS(147) acutely aware of a major drawback — speed! When the comput
190 PRINT#15,"B-P";5;144:PRINT#5,M$; er you're dialing is momentarily busy, redialing those seven or
200 PRINT#15,"U2 5 0 18 0" more digits can seem to take forever. If your local telephone
:PRINT#15,"I" company offers the feature called "speed dialing." you can be rid
of the delay forever.
The speed dialing feature lets you set up nine or more tele
File (j(H)I'er: Run this program to zero out all the file length in phone numbers that you can dial with two digits from any
dicators in your directory. When used with Directory Basher, it phone on your line. Put your commonly-dialed computer num
has a great effect as a security measure. bers onto speed dialing, and your modem can get by dialing two
Thong Nguyen numbers rather than seven or more.
Panama City, FL Craig Edward Given
Chattanooga. TN
100 PRINT"[CLEARJFILE GOOFER - THONG
NGUYEN" "Color" on a monochrome monitor: Commodore's 16 colors are
110 PRINT"[DOWN]HIT SHIFT TO GOOF ALL just a key press away, but they are useless to those of us without
FILES":WAIT 653,1
color monitors — or so we think. All we see are different shades
120 OPEN 15,8,15:OPEN 5,8,5,"#"
of gray, green or amber, depending on the phosphor in our moni
:FOR C=l TO 3
tor. It's useful to know which colors show up as various shades of
130 FOR S=C TO C+15 STEP 3:GOSUB 150
gray. From dark to light, here's how they appear on my own
:NEXT:NEXT
monochrome: black, blue, brown, dark gray, red, orange, purple,
140 PRINT#15,"I0":END
light blue, medium gray; light red, green, cyan, light gray, yel
150 PRINT#15,"U1:";5;0;18;S:GET#5,A$
low, light green, white. Sometimes adjacent shades will show up
160 IF A$=""THEN A$=A$+CHRS(0)
almost identically, and different monitors may cause minor vari
170 IF ASC(A$)=0 THEN GOSUB 180
ations in the order of the shades presented, but for most pur
:GOTO 140
180 FOR B=30 TO 254 STEP 32
poses this order is perfectly correct.
190 PRINT#15,"B-P";5;B:PRINT#5, This knowledge can be useful in many ways, such as in caus
CHR$(0); ing two sprites to collide, flash brightly then fade out.
200 NEXT:PRINT#15,"U2:n;5;0;18;S Rick Root
:RETURN Saline. MI

Disk Signer; Leave your mark on all of your disks sfl a friendly
reminder to those who borrow them. Just mn this program on Hard's Tale II tip: We beat this game when we found the bad
the desired disk before putting any other files on it. Your signa guy was really the Sage Mage. The levels of our characters were:
ture can't even be erased from the disk by normal means. Byron 41 BA~ Lord Myron 27 PA. Great Bap 53 AM. Doctor 53
Thong Nguyen AM. Doc Rock 53 AM. and Sly 41 HU.
Panama City, FL ■James W. Lee
Seoul. South Korea
100 PRINT"[CLEAR]DISK SIGNER - THONG
NGUYEN"
110 PRINT"[DOWN]HIT SHIFT TO SIGN Plus/1 and Clfi line width: These computers lack the 128's
YOUR NAME ON A DISK..." WIDTH statement to get normal or double width lines when
120 FOR X=l TO 16:F$=FS+CHRS(160):NEXT drawing lines, circles and boxes. But you can double the width of
130 OS="PROPERTY OF" the lines by using POKE 743.1. To return to normal, use POKE
140 WAIT 653,1:OPEN 15,8,15 743,0.
:OPEN 5,8,5,"# Cyrus Nasiraey
150 INPUT"YOUR NAME < 12 CHRS";NS Meshed, Iran
160 N$=LEFT$(N$,12):S=0:GOSUB 210
170 P=144:M$=CHR$(141)+CHR$(147)
:GOSUB 220
64 Binary Key Decoder: This little program lets you see the AS
180 S=1:GOSUB 210:P=2:XS=O$:GOSUB 240 CII value of any key on the 64 s keyboard, but it expresses the
:GOSUB 220 value in binary notation rather than the usual decimal or hex.
190 P=34:X$=N$:GOSUB 240:GOSUB 220 Programmers who frequently use machine code may find it
200 PRINT#15,"I0":END helpful, as will readers who want to learn more about binary.
210 PRINT#15,"U1";5;0;18;S:RETURN After all. the best way to learn a new numbering system is to see
2 20 PRINT#15,"B-P",5,P:PRINT#5,M$; how it expresses some quantities you're already familiar with.
2 30 PRINT#15,"U2";5;0;18;S:RETURN Imad M. Ahmad
240 M$=CHR$(232J+CHRS(0)+CHR$(0) Amman. Jordan

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Tips & Tricks/64 and 128
096
10 PRINT"[CLEAR,RVS] C64 BINARY KEY 80 DATA 234,234,032,210,255,169,000,
DECODER - IMAD M. AHMAD " 141
20 FOR J=0 TO 33:READ K:CS=CS+K 81 DATA 096,192,096
:POKE 49152+J,K:NEXT
30 IF CSO5366 THEN PRINT"DATA ERROR"
:STOP 128 screen POKEs: Don't listen to those who say you can't
40 PRINT"[DOWN21PRESS ANY KEY TO SEE POKE characters to the 128's 80-column screen. The 128 has a
ITS ASCII CODE IN screen editor routine to send bytes to the 80-column chip. To use
50 PRINT"[DOWN1BINARY.[SPACE2]
it in BASIC, simply type the following:
PRESS STOP TO QUIT." SYS 52684,byte,31
60 PRINT:SYS 49152:GOTO 60
"Byte" is the screen poke code for the character you want to ap
70 : pear on the screen. It will appear at the current cursor position,
71 DATA 032,228,255,240,251,032,210,
and the cursor position will advance by one when you send the
255
byte to the chip.
72 DATA 133,251,169,017,032,210,255,
You can set the cursor position anywhere you want by using
165
this code'
73 DATA 251,133,251,162,008,006,251,
SYS 52684,bytel,18 : SYS 52684,byte2,19
169
74 DATA 048,105,000,032,210,255,202,
"Bytel" and "byte2" make up the screen address where the
208
character is to appear. The home position has bytel = 0 and
75 DATA 244,096 byte2 = 0; incrementing byte2 increments the cursor position by
one. while incrementing bytel increments the cursor position by
256. For the lower right-hand comer of the screen, bytel = 7 and
&1 Screen Bars: This program gives you an interesting way to byte2 = 207.
highlight your 64 screen display. After you run it, executing a The same SYS call can be used to determine a characters col
SYS 49152 will put colorful bars onto the screen for several sec or or its attributes such as underline, reverse field, blinking or
onds. As you can see from the REMs, you can change the dura graphics/upper and lower case. To do this, determine the position
tion of the display and the vertical size of the bars by poking spe of the character you want to affect, then add 8 to byte 1 in the ex
cial values. As presented here, the screen is cleared before the pression above. Execute the resulting expression, then follow it
bars are displayed. You can eliminate the screen dealing by ex with SYS 52684,byte,31 where "byte" is a number that will de
ecuting a POKE49153,0. (It returns when you POKE termine the attributes. The attribute table is too large to print
49153,147). here, but it's easy to determine it experimentally,
In all cases, your POKEs must be executed before the SYS You can PEEK the screen by using this:
49152. SYS52698,,31:RREGX
Matthew Lewis After execution, the variable X will hold the value of the charac
Christ Church, Barbados ter at the cursor position. If the cursor isn't where you want it,
you can set its position by the techniques described above.
10 REM C64 SCREEN BARS - MATTHEW LEWIS Michael Kimsal
20 REM POKE 49153,0 FOR NO CLEAR Mt. Clemens, MI
SCREEN
30 REM POKE 49153,147 TO RESTORE CLR Free paper, free disks, free equipment! Tons of used computer
40 REM POKE 49199,TIME (2 IS NORMAL) paper are thrown away each day by companies of all descrip
50 REM POKE 49215,BAR HEIGHT (2 tions, and every sheet of it has one unused side just waiting to be
NORMAL) run through your printer. You can use this paper for drafts, pro
60 REM SYS49152 TO ACTIVATE THE BARS gram listings and the like, and you can usually get it free. Just
70 FOR J=0 TO 82:READ KrPOKE 49152+J,K
ask the person who's throwing it away, and you'll probably get
:NEXT
permission.
71 DATA 169,147,032,074,192,162,000,
If you find a stack that's wider than your printer, but good in
160
every other respect, you can use it if you have access to a band
72 DATA 000,169,000,141,032,208,141,
saw and a printer with friction feed. The band saw will neatly
033
and easily cut through a two- or three-inch stack of computer pa
73 DATA 208,238,010,192,173,010,192,
per. The friction feed printer won't mind a diet of sawed paper.
201
74 DATA 017,208,005,169,000,141,010,
Companies that are moving their offices can also be a good
192
source of disks and even equipment. They often change their
75 DATA 032,051,192,232,224,255,208, computer systems when they move, and they often discard the
225 old stuff. A friend of mine got two perfectly good monitors this
76 DATA 238,096,192,173,096,192,201, way, plus a ton of 5 1/4" diskettes and lots of other useful stuff.
002 Another friend got a boxful of RS232 cables. Keep your eyes and
77 DATA 208,215,096,200,192,255,208, ears open for treasures like these, but always ask permission be
251 fore taking anything.
78 DATA 238,097,192,173,097,192,201, A. M.Johnson, Jr.
002 Cary,NC
79 DATA 208,241,169,000,141,097,192, a

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 MUST SELL
Amiga Software Reviews/Phantasie I and
Continued from pg. 36 AT HUGE SAVINGS!
Men (Random) make good fighters. Cycle as Phantasie I, except this time Nickade- Printer Table

through the characters' attributes until mus is not trying to conquer an isle, he's
you have good strength, hit points, consti trying to conquer the entire world. The
tution and dexterity. Don't worry about graphics are enhanced from Phantasie I,
their intelligence. You'll use them to give and the battle options are quite different
the more intelligent characters some mus In battle you now have a choice of eleven
cle to back them up. options (six of which I described above).
One Thief—Elves. Sprites i Random i The other four are Aim Bow. Fire Bow.
and Halflings make good thieves. Your Move Front. Move Middle and Move Back.
thief will be invaluable when exploring
dungeons. He can pick locked doors and Improvements OAK
disarm many traps that you will encoun
ter in the dungeons.
In Phantasie III SSI has improved
many of the complaints I had about Phan
COMPUTER
One Ranger—Humans and Dwarves tasie I. When you are exploring a dungeon FURNITURE
make good rangers. A ranger is a well- and are asked to save the dungeon map, Modern Flair! Make working at your com
puter easier with this attractive Oak
rounded character that combines both you am safely click on save without eras
Furniture. Our special arrangement with
strength and intelligence i which you need ing the previously saved map. Your bank the manufacturer means tremendous sav
for spell casting), which makes him a wor account will no longer be low. the maxi ings for you. Select the chair, table or desk
thy addition to your party. mum amount is now 81,000,000.000 (yes, at our LOW prices! All pieces come ready
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One Wizard—He requires a very high that's one billion). The character represen Posture Chair. (Nylon Woven Fabric)
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One Priest—Likewise, your party can tioned above i, this gives more strategy Computer Desk: (37"H x 31 "W x 23"D)
• Openwork Design with Rolled Edges.
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priest. A good high-level priest can heal members don't just get hit any more, now • Non-Glare. Slate-Look Work Surface.
your party members, so you can make it they can be hit in different areas of the Posture Chair

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tant factor in playing the game. You will perience points, and it will cause them to Liquidation Price . . .
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Mail Order Nhnia
charges from the bill." said Davis, adding mally you have a 10-day grace period
Continued from pg. 11
"We then step in and resolve the differ within which to give notice to the shipper
Another consideration when picking a ences with the mail-order house." and dealer that a product is either defec
mail-order store is whether they offer toil- tive or was damaged in transit. The same
five long-distance calling. Most offer free What Should You Do if is true of mailing a product"s warranty
lines for ordering, hut insist you pay for the Product You Ordered card. I never send the warranty card until
the call if you want to talk with them I'm satisfied the product is operating as it
Never Arrives?
about anything else. Eight hundred tele should. Once the warranty card is mailed.
If the order doesn't arrive within a day
phone numbers are the mail-order indus or two of the date the salesperson prom
most sellers, retail as well as mail-order,
try's great equalizer. They make buying ised, call back. Be sure to have the invoice
will ask you to return the product to the
across country as sensible and affordable manufacturer instead of to them for war
number they gave you when you placed
as across town. But if the house you order ranty coverage. But ifyou notify the mail
the order, the check number or credit card
from doesn't permit using their 800 num order dealer (within the time limits) be
number used for payment, and know the
ber for non-order calls think twice about fore mailing the warranty cards, they will
date on which you placed the order. Ask to
using them. If you have a problem, you
speak with the same salespeivwn who took normally replace a defective item.
could lose more than you saved on the If the product is damaged in transit, the
the order. They should be able to trace
purchase with long-distance fees. your order in a few minutes. If their re carrier (UPS. Federal Express, U.S.P.S.,
etc.) must be notified as soon as you detect
Sometimes Things Still cords indicate you should have already re
the problem. Of course, if possible, do not
ceived the shipment, it's time to place a
Go Wrong: accept delivery of a package if discemable
tracer. The dealer will begin a search from
Even with your best efforts and the best damage has been done. If the damage was
their end and you can help by contacting
intentions on the pait of the mail-order caused by the courier's handling of the
the courier on your end. If the missing
house, things sometimes go wrong. The product, they will pay for replacement. In
product was being shipped by U.S. mail,
consumer has several shields of protec the case of the Postal Service, it is impor
you should contact the local post office and
tion—the first is his or her own good tant that the shipper supply adequate in
fill out tracer form #PS1510.
sense. Every publication has certain stan surance coverage on any package.
dards which they enforce on advertisers. Murray Dana, General Manager of
The ads they cany must be honest and What if they charged me Montgomery Grant, emphasizes that the
list only sale items which are available in
more than they had agreed to buyer needs to let the mail-order house
the quantities indicated. The first indica know as quickly as possible if a product is
tion of the professionalism of a mail-order over the phone? What if the defective or damaged. "As soon as you de
house is the quality of the publication in tect something is amiss, notify us. And be
which it appears. If you still have reserva system never arrived?
sure to have the invoice number from the
tions about a dealer, the Better Business packaging slip when you call." said Dana.
Bureau in the town it is located can give You should know that the law states ''We can usually replace the item quickly.
you an indication of how reputable the that your merchandise must be shipped But it's important to notify us quickly be
dealer is. based on the number of com within 30 days after the company receives fore you fill out any warranty cards."
plaints they received concerning it. A big your order or they are obligated to notify
protective shield is supplied by the U.S. you giving you the opportunity to cancel
Government. Because any product which your order. What if the Wrong Product
is either ordered through or shipped via is Delivered?
mail service comes under the jurisdiction What if the Product is Damaged? Notify the dealer as soon as you recog
of the U.S. Postal Service, your local Post Don't assume the item is defective nize the error. Do not open erroneously re
master will be able to help you unstick (unless damage is visible) until you read ceived software packages. Doing so is
any sticky billing, harassment or shipping and understand the manual. I know fn>m frowned upon by the seller for obvious rea
problems you might run up against. embarrassing personal experience that sons and will make them hesitant to re
Credit card users have another power more often than not it is the would-be us place. If the wrong package is hardware,
ful shield—the bank which issued their er's ignorance of a product which prevents again notify the dealer who will instruct
card. If you are billed for something you it from working than the fault of defective you as to how to ship it back for a refund
didn't order, didn't receive, or aren't happy or damaged merchandise. I receive an or exchange. But don't assume the item
with, and can't get satisfaction directly average of five UPS or U.S.P.S. packages printed on the outside of a shipping box is
from the mail-order company the bank every week. The only product I've received exactly what is inside. Dealers often ship
will step in to help you resolve the prob that's been damaged in the mail has been orders in whatever box is available with
lem. Randy Davis, a Consumer Credit a few 5.25-inch diskettes which were enough room for both the purchase and
Manager with First Union Bank, says shipped without protective packaging. some protective packaging material. The
most banks have an investigating agency My most embarrassing moment (weeks result is that the box you receive may list
like his Merchant Services department is more accurate i came when I shipped a the contents as a microwave oven inslead
which resolves credit card users' com monochrome monitor back to California of the computer you ordered. Go ahead
plaints. "If one of our customers doesn't twice (yes. two errors on my paiti because and look, chances are what you ordered is
gel what he or she is charged for or isn't I didn't fully understand the manual or inside. But if it turns out to Ix; a micro
satisfied with what is delivered, our agent the salesperson's explanation. After that wave oven, stop right there, call the mail
will look into the problem, and if we agree experience I now know to reread the man order house and explain the problem. I
with the card holder, we'll remove those ual before hitting the panic button. Nor wouldn't worry about receiving the wrong

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(2) When the call goes through, identify order, they turn it around and order it
product. I once ordered a box of 3.5-inch yourself, ask for the salesperson's name, from their distributor. Whether this
disks and received 5.25-inch floppies in and state exactly what you're interested will delay your order depends upon
stead. Rather than instructing me to re in buying. Tell the salesperson the name whether the distributor sends it to the
turn the larger disks, the dealer apolo of the product and, if you know it, the mail-order house, who must then repack it
gized for the mix-up, told me to keep the manufacturer's name too. (Don't waste and forward it to you, or if the distributor
floppies as a gift and overnight-expressed time with idle chatter. Regardless of who's will ship it directly to you. Most mail-or
the right disks at no additional charge. paying for the call it is costing, plus the der houses will take your order, even if
I've found that most reputable dealers will salesman is probably paid on commission, they don't have the product in stock and
bend over backwards to correct mistakes. so even though he wants to satisfy your will fill it as fast as they can. But if the
inquiries about his products, he's too busy salesperson tells you the product is on his
What if You Get Something to discuss the weather.) shelves, you can expect faster delivery
You Didn't Order (3) It's important to identify which sys which takes us to step seven.
You can let your conscience be your tem you intend to use the peripheral or (7) Once you've committed your credit
guide on this matter. Ray Hilton, my local software on. For instance, if you are card to a purchase, you want to get your
Postmaster, says the law protects the re buying Timeworks' Partner be sure to hands on the item. So ask the clerk how
ceiver of unsolicited products. "If the re identify whether you want the 64 or 128 the order will be shipped (overnight couri
ceiver has no knowledge of the item, he or version (if you don't make this clear, you er, First Class mail, regular UPS, etc.) and
she is not required to pay for or return the might find the IBM version on your door how long you should expect before deliv
item," said Hilton. If the dealer who erro step by mistake). ery. Some mail-order dealers will rush
neously sent the item should harass the your order at no extra charge if you ask
recipient for either payment or return of for rush treatment. Depending upon their
the item, the recipient should notify the
When shopping beware of shipping procedures this could cut a day
Department of Consumer Affairs in their unbelievably low prices— or two off the delivery time. But you must
state. Hilton says a simple telephone call ask for rush treatment! All houses will de
to them usually stops the harassment. He often they are either liver a purchase overnight as well if you
quickly adds that the person who received are willing to foot the extra shipping
the goods should double check to make
intentionally misleading or charges.
sure the product was not ordered without disguised package deals. The clerk should be able to tell you
their knowledge. "Always check with fam when your order will leave their shipping
ily members—especially children," he Don't assume the price listed department and the day you can expect
said, "to be sure the package was really delivery. Be sure to get the invoice num
not ordered."
in the magazine ad is set in ber for your purchase and write it down
stone. along with the expected shipping and de
What to do if the Company livery dates where you won't lose them. If
Goes Bankrupt something goes wrong you'll need that in
This is a tough situation at best says at (4) Ask for the current price (this can formation to correct it. If the product
torney Robert Pitts, who specializes in avoid some embarrassing, difficult-to-re- doesn't materialize within a day or two of
bankruptcy cases. "The biggest problem solve misunderstandings). the date they promised, you should call
you'll encounter is being a resident in one (5) Next ask which version of the prod back, ask for the salesperson you placed
state while the bankrupt company is in uct they are shipping. This makes a big your order with, and ask him or her to
another. How do you know the company difference. As an example: if you simply trace your order. I've never had an order
has filed for bankruptcy? Hopefully the say you want the Xetec interface they misplaced, but there is always a first time.
court finds evidence of a purchase which have on sale, you may be disappointed to Having the information you need to cor
has not been shipped and will notify you. find the Junior version delivered when rect the problem is half the battle.
When they do, you need to then fill out a you intended to order the Super Graphix (8) Be sure to ask exactly what your
'Proof of Claim' form, which you can get at version. The same is even more important charges will be—including shipping and
most office supply stores or the county when ordering software. Most productiv credit card fees. If the total they quote
courthouse," said Pitts. Normally unfilled ity programs are changed or updated peri doesn't match your own math, ask the
orders for less than $900 are settled first odically, and you want to be sure to buy salesperson to list the charges line by line.
by the courts, so the little guy isn't always the most current version. Unless you ask, If there is an extra charge, be sure you un
out of luck. The big problem said Pitts, "is the wonderful program you order at a bar derstand what it is for, so you both agree
not knowing if a company has filed for gain price may actually be an earlier ver upon the total charge before you finalize
bankruptcy. The first hint you (the buyer) sion the store owner is discounting to clear the purchase.
might have is when you call and find that out his warehouse. Of course, this may be (9) All products should carry a manu
number has been disconnected." exactly what you want, but unless you facturer's warranty. Make sure the sales
ask, you won't be sure until you open the person understands that you expect a new
The Ten Commandments of box in your own home. warranty on each item. Also ask what
Placing A Mail Order (6) A key question I sometimes forget, is satisfaction guarantee, separate from
(1) Scan the ads in several magazines to ask if the product is in stock. Some the product manufacturer's, they offer. If
and clip those which have the best prices. mail-order houses sell from a list, not from your purchase is for hardware, most sell
Then with those in front of you, begin what's on their shelves. This is especially ers will guarantee it to arrive in working
calling. true of new items. Once they receive your order and will stand behind this promise

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Mail Order Mania Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy/Family Feud -
Continued from pg. 24 Jeopardy
separate from the manufacturer's. This The televised version of this show pitted ANSWER: A sedate and serious game
means if something goes wrong, they will two five-member families against each show, where three contestants, given a
replace it (within a reasonable timel with other as they tried to match the answers specific yet often cryptic answer, must
out you having to ship it to the manufac given most often in a survey of one hun prove their superior intelligence by quick
turer. This can save a great amount of dred people. Although this computerized ly and accurately supplying a matching
time and grief. I would never buy from a rendition will still accommodate the ten- question.
seller who wouldn't guarantee the product person format, the program is even will
to perform as advertised and to arrive in ing to entertain a single sibling in a satis
working order. fying computer match. Regardless of how
The tension, excitement and
many eager participants you have gath challenge have all been
ered around your Commodore, you'll al
Mail-order houses still cater ways be in good company, for every con
captured on disk to provide
to those customers who live test opens with the appointment of a what promises to be an
groomed and manicured video family for
far from the products they enjoyable, yet humbling
each opposing side. There's Dad, Mom, Sis
and two Brothers, all eager and smiling as experience.
need, and in 1988 that they stare out at you from inside your
often means computer and monitor. Treat them as you would your QUESTION: What is "Jeopardy?"
own, for they will be your on-screen repre Long lauded as the toughest of televi
software customers. sentatives and rooting section—cheering, sion's game shows, ShareData's Commo
jumping and laughing when your answer dore version comes across with just the
(10) Before you hang up, ask who to is among those posted, and frowning, right level of subdued, taut energy. Play a
contact if something should go wrong— sulking and yelling when your guess is couple of rounds against some skilled
the product doesn't arrive, is damaged or dismissed. friends or the highly educated computer,
the wrong product is shipped. Getting this To start each of the game's four rounds, and you'll actually leave the keyboard ex
information when you place the order can two opposing family members come for hausted from the mental workout.
simplify and speed satisfaction if a prob ward to center stage and square off for the Three separate screens are utilized in
lem does arise. If the salesperson can't opening toss-up question, which appears the reproduction of this contest, in effect
supply that information without hesita along the screen's lower edge. The player mirroring the three basic camera shots
tion, think twice before finalizing the who can supply the more popular answer used in this game's televised twin.
deal—hesitation to give that information to this survey queiy is then given control The first is the head-on angle of all
now could disguise an eternal headache of the round. This means he can either three contestants, as they look out from
just waiting to torture you later. Repu "play," betting that his squad will come up behind their electronic podiums at an un
table dealers have established procedures with the rest of the answers, or "pass" off seen emcee. The program's designers de
for taking care of their customers' prob that responsibility to his opponents. If and cided to have a little fun with this screen,
lems and their sales force should be ready when the "playing" team gets three cashing in on a chance to parody some of
to share that information. misses, the other family is given the the typical stereotypes who seem to fre
chance to win the round by guessing any quent this stage. Before the contest be
Conclusion one of the remaining answers. gins, each contestant is given the chance
Regardless of whether you are shopping It's all here, from the big yellow survey to thumb through an assortment of video
by phone or in a mall, the key to saving board and multi-level family podiums to characters to personally choose the sex
money and being happy with your pur some catchy theme music and nail-biting and appearance of his on-screen surro
chase remains the same—think, compare Fast Money bonus rounds. ShareData has gate. What can't be judged from this visu
and read the fine print. If you'll follow the successfully captured both the play and al selection is the personality that will ac
suggestions offered here, you should find feel of the show, carefully supplying just company the face. This will only become
that using your fingers to do your shop enough audio/visual extras to dress things apparent when the contest begins, and
ping is not only easy and relatively risk up without disturbing the pace of play. some embarrassing but amusing idiosyn-
free, but can also save you both money What's particularly impressive in this cracies begin to surface. For example, in
and time. game is the intelligence of unseen com my corner, I've had the calm and collected
puter judge, who recognizes synonymous businessman, who would show no emo
Agencies to contact with a
or related answers as correct matches. For tion, win or lose, aside from the periodic
complaint if all else fails: example, if the answer is "hosiery" and adjustment of his tie: the short wimpy
Chief Postal Inspector you type in "socks," the response will be bookworm, who peered through oversized
U.S. Postal Service deemed correct, and the points awarded. spectacles and actually pouted in disbelief
Washington, D.C. 20260-2161 The game has brains. whenever his answers were judged incor
Interesting and involving, Family Feud rect; and the chisel-faced, toothy macho
Direct Marketing Association
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morous responses. When you finish play buzzer. It's a lighthearted touch aimed at
Council of Better Business Bureaus and finally say good-bye to your new softening this contest's stodgy reputation.
1515 Wilson Blvd. found relatives, you'll wonder where the But make no mistake, when the challenge
Arlington, VA 22209 3 hours went. commences and there's money on the line,

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Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy/Family Feud™ Software Reviews/Stationfall
as you think. At least you won't have to go Continued from pg. 26
this simulation is all business. on national TV to prove it. published and decided to make a set for
The pivotal game screen is the world-re this game."
nowned big blue board, a large sectioned Hints to help you add to your jackpot This inspiration for the blueprints is
structure that provides five boxes of in earnings: just one source of ideas for Meretzky. He
creasing value for each of the round's six likes read to science fiction stories and
answer categories. When a player speci Wheel of Fortune certainly has some experience in the
fies the box he would like revealed, the • Buying vowels can be a sound puzzle- realm. All of his stories except Sorcerer
screen switches over to a close-up view of solving gamble, but the key to a success fall into that category Meretzky claims
the square, where the answer can the be ful purchase is the timing. Vowels should that this "was semi-unintentional. I had
easily read. Each contestant is given a only be bought when a fair number of con many ideas and it just happened that the
button on the Commodore keyboard to act sonants have been turned over and you ones that were chosen as my next project
as his buzzer. If he thinks he knows the are still uncertain of the puzzle solution. were in the science fiction genre." When
question to answer, he must signal and • Since the money values on the wheel asked whether any of the characters in his
type out his guess within a thirty second increase with each round, the spins be stories were binary counterpaits of real-
time limit. This half minute allowance come more valuable as the game goes on. life people, Meretzky responds, "Perhaps
might seem a bit liberal to some hard-core With this in mind, it would be a good the ambassador in Planetfall was like a
"Jeopardy" followers, but it's only so that strategy to try to save any "Free Spins'" physics teacher I had in high school, but
those who hunt and peck will have the for the later rounds, since their potential that's about it."
same opportunity as those who touch type. worth will only increase. Unless there's a Stationfall should not be overlooked if
If you give a correct answer, the crowd large amount of money at stake and the you're looking for a good challenge that is
cheers, your score is increased and you are puzzle solution is so obvious that the next also a lot of fun. The game is never boring,
awarded the honor of choosing the next contestant will surely cash in. never use nor does it allow entering commands
answer. If you give a wrong response, after your Free Spin bonus in the first round. without thinking about what you're doing.
the audience groans, the cash value will There are some unique puzzles that have
be subtracted from your total. The round Family Feud never been on disk before, notably the
continues until all thirty answers have • In the television version of this game, mystery of the dots on the wall of the alien
been revealed. there could be a perceived advantage to ship you find in a docking bay. Your brain
All the familiar parameters of play passing control of a question over to the cells will be challenged, and your appetite
have been included. After the initial ses competing team, since each opposing fam for a good story will be satisfied.
sion, there's Double Jeopardy, where the ily member would then be forced to an The plot of Stationfall has no holes and
dollar values are doubled, and the Final swer as an individual, while your squad so many sources of revelation that only a
Jeopardy, where each contestant secretly could confer and brainstorm to arrive at a veteran designer like Meretzky could
bets a percentage of his earnings before group decision. After all, five heads are have pulled it off. Instead of being just
viewing the contest's last answer. And of better than one. But if you're up against another adventure, Stationfall reads like
course, throughout each round, there are the computer or a single competitor in the a good novel and is exemplary of what in
the randomly positioned, ever-popular ShareData rendition, that strategy is ob teractive fiction is all about. I strongly rec
Daily Doubles. The game boasts "hun viously useless. In that situation, it is usu ommend it for those not familial' with this
dreds of categories with over a thousand ally better to remain in the driver's seat type of game. Meretzky was happy with
questions." That's enough to keep any by keeping control of the question. the way Stationfall turned out and found
tri\ia buff busy. • When playing against the computer, "it was nice going back to Floyd, kind of
One of the nicest features of this pro always let the opposing family member like rediscovering an old friend."
gram is how the computer players try to win the initial face-off portion of the I have a few hints that might be of some
keep pace with their human opponents. If round. As a rule, they will never offer the use to the person stuck in Stationfall.
you open a sizeable lead, their trigger fin "number one" answer to the survey ques Don't overlook any description; read eveiy
gers will tap a little quicker, and their IQ's tion. As long as you can top their response response carefully. Experiment with the
will seem to inch up a notch or two. On the with a more popular one, you can still different objects around the ostrich and
other hand, if you hit a noticeable slump, gain control of the question and will have Arcturian balloon creature—eventually,
your challengers will actually answer a one less solution to uncover. you'll find out what "moves" them. Some
couple of questions wrong to keep things items perform the same function, so make
tight. It makes for exciting, tense play, Jeopardy sure you've used the best one for the job or
game after engaging game. • Unlike its network cousin, the com you may have to return to an earlier part
If there's one more alluring element puter version of Jeopardy is not con of the game. Read any papers or notes lay
that is common to each ShareData pack strained by commercial obligations or ing around and examine other sources of
age, it's their relatively low purchase time slots, so you can be sure that both big information. Be careful around machinery
price. If you're attracted to the type of boards will be fully uncovered by the time after the second day—it could be danger
competitive entertainment that a televi Final Jeopardy rolls around. But due to ous. When I asked Meretzky for tips on
sion game show can provide, then you can the presence of the Daily Doubles, where how to play one of his games, with an at
go out and pick up all three programs for only the player who selects the square is tempted straight face, he replied, "I hon
under forty dollars. For that price, you'll given the opportunity to wager money, it estly don't know. I never play Steve Mer
also get yourself an education. For after a still makes sense to choose the category etzky games—I just write them!" This is
few rounds with each contest, you'll prob you know best whenever you are given the the mind you have to deal with—good
ably learn that you're really not as smart chance. Q luck! a

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101 Tips for Commodore Game Players
Continued from pg. 69
skull on the treasure, walk back and forth over the treasure
F-15 Strike Eagle: When you first start flying, immediately cut while pressing the fire button. You'll get up to seven times the
power to 55% by pressing zero. This speed uses only three fuel original point value for the treasure.
units at a time. Engage afterburners, and you still use only Mark Montgomery
three pounds of fuel at a time! In this way, you can fly around at Greensboro, North Carolina
close to Mach 2 for a long time, racking up a very nice score
along the way. Gateway to Apshai: You can stop the clock in this game by call
Shawn W. Scanlan ing up your status or weapons screen.
Torvnto, Ontario Kevin Walsh
Canada Hopkinton, Massachusetts

Faery Tale Adventure: Go to the watch tower (find it on your Ghosts 'N Goblins: When fighting the Unicorn, there is a spe
map), enter it and get the shell you find inside. Then stand close cial area where you will be immune to all attacks. On the first
to a large river or lake and use the shell. Seconds later, a turtle screen, it is in a little bit from the left edge of the gate. Straight
will come. Ride it. weapons (javelins, swords and crosses) are always better than
Abbott Wang arc weapons, because arc weapons can't go over graves.
Greenville, Texas Troy Nesfeder
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Fight Night: 1. To beat Dip Stick, concentrate on hitting him in
the head. Force him into a corner and punch him out. But watch Goonies: To start on a selected level, press the F5 key then the
his low sucker punch. 2. Work on Kid Kastro's cigar. Watch out F7 key for each level you want to move up.
for his fancy footwork and his Superblow. 3. Beat Hu Him by Unknown Contributor
faking him and using body punches. He has a cement head and Brossard, Quebec
a vicious Superblow. 4. Keep Bronx Bomber in the center of the Canada
ring. If he catches you in a comer, you're dead.
Robert Wu Hard Hat Mack: To get quickly to the last screen: When the title
MonteivyPark, California screen appears, press the keys 1 through 9 in order. Then press
the zero key.
Flight Simulator I and II: If you have trouble with stalling dur Richard Penn
ing takeoff, before starting your engine push the joystick for Montreal, Quebec
ward until the pitch marker is at the bottom. You can then take Canada
off stall-free unless you push the pitch indicator all the way up.
(You may go down a bit before you are airborne, but don't let it Jumpman: Type these two lines and insert your Jumpman disk
worry you I. into the drive. Enter RUN and enjoy Jumpman Immortality!
Nathan Semonik 1 IF A = 0 THEN A = 1: LOAD "INTRO.SYS",8,1
Address Unknown 2 POKE 24015,173 : POKE 54296,15 : SYS 36864
Mitchell Anstine
Flight Simulator II: If you need fuel when there are no airfields Central Point, Oregon
around, just hit "E" to go into Edit mode. When you exit back to
flying, you'll be right where you were before, but with full tanks! jumpman Jr.: To get unlimited lives, do this:
John T. Alsobrook LOAD "JUMPMAN JR.",8
Benion, Kentucky POKE 9450,173: RUN
Bobby Brickhouse
Flight Simulator II: If you own this game and Sublogic's Je£, Address Unknown
you can play a super version of'Flight Simulator H's World War I
Ace game. Boot up Jet and choose the right type of monitor. Re Karateka: You can let your man fight for you by holding the fire
move the Jet disk and insert Flight Simulator II. Choose Dog button down once you are in the fighting position. I have
fight on the Game Mode menu, then choose the skill level that reached the palace entrance this way.
best suits your pilot capabilities. After choosing your aircraft John M. Lyle
and armament, you'll be able to play a mixture of Jet and World Tiskilwa, Illinois
War 1 Ace. I call it the World War I Jet Ace game!
Ron Gregorsok Kronis Rift: After the fourth Rift, your firepower becomes use
Bowling Green, Ohio less against Guardians' shields, unless you find new Modules.
As you leave your scoutcraft, move toward the nearest Module,
Friday the 13th: Get the red axe for a weapon. It is stronger and count to ten seconds then immediately call the ship. By doing
better than Jason's weapon. this over and over, you'll get closer to the Module without en
Mark Brenner countering any Guardians.
Chattanooga, Tennessee Robert Wu
Monterey Park, California
Gateway to Apshai: You can multiply your score for a treasure if
the treasure is trapped by other than the Freeze and Teleporta- Kung Fu Hero: When you are on the first floor and facing left,
tion traps. Tb do it, use Locate Trap; when you see the flashing press SHIFT and the letter "G." A shooting gun will appear in

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101 Tips for Commodore Game Players

your hand! This is useful for killing the villain at the end of the second player, buy something with very few hit points. Then
floor, and will also kill any number of people who are approach blow it away a few times to get more money.
ing from the left. If you remain motionless a few seconds after Robert Grzesek
firing, the author's name will appear on the screen. Diamond Bar, California
Asanka Pitawala
Bronx, New York Mail Order Monsters: Take your monster to the Weapons Shop
and if you don't have an E-Pack, buy one for 50 Psyehons. Sell
Kung Fu Master: An easy way to beat the enemy at the end of your E-Pack at the shop, and you'll get 73 Psyehons for it! This
each hall is to turn around when you get to him and walk back slick trick only works once per monster.
to the beginning of the hall. Instead of arriving at the begin Ben Gold
ning, you'll end up behind the enemy, where you can easily beat Berkeley, California
him up. Move fast when you do this, because as you use time,
you reduce the number of points you get. Mail Order Monsters: When you've lost a battle in the Tourna
Byron Henderson ment and the computer asks you to insert the Owner's Disk, just
Address Unknown power down instead. You won't lose any Psyehons or weapons.
Chih Chiang
Kung Fu Master: Tb beat the fourth floor guard, all you have to Salisbury, Maryland
do is use a low punch. Push the joystick down and press the but
ton as fast as you can.
Chih Chiang
Salisbury, Maryland
After choosing your aircraft and armament,
you'll be able to play a mixture of Jet and
Kung Fu Master: Tb kill the final attacker on the fifth level, hit
him with a middle kick, then a low kick, then a flying kick. Fin World War I Ace.
ish him off by running at him while throwing low punches.
Steve Biay
Miami, Florida Mail Order Monsters: Tb find the password for any owner on
your disk, just LOAD "owner name",8 then LIST. It's as simple
Leader Board: When you're playing Novice at the 11th hole on as that.
the first course, use a nine iron (91). This should give you a hole- Jeromie Carr
in-one every other time. Pine, Colorado
Clay Rose
Address Unknown Marble Madness: At the sixth or seventh level, gravity changes
so you have to go uphill. Go to the top where you can see a green
Legacy of the Ancients: 1. When you start a new character, im marble and a black one. If you want to lose quickly, hit the black
mediately find weapon and armor training shops to improve his marble. If you want to get extra time, run into the green one.
dexterity and endurance points. (The greater your character Tim Sparks
points, the harder you are to kill). 2. Never try to rob a bank in a Minford, Ohio
town if you are weak. (The guards will attack you). 3. Healing
Herbs can only be purchased and used after you view the Herb Matrix: Tb move to the next stage, simultaneously press SHIFT.
of life exhibit in the Museum. 4. Museum exhibits are all vital CONTROL, RUN/STOP and COMMODORE.
in retrieving the Compendium from the evil Warlord. The Test, Lucy S. Terrier
The Four Jewels and The Pirate's Treasure will help you find Alton, Illinois
the three dungeons in Tarmalon. The Pegasus exhibit helps you
ride the winged horse. Miner 2049ler: For an unlimited number of lives, enter POKE
Robert Wu 9450,173 : POKE 2652,165 : POKE 2471.255
Monterey Park, California LU Wilhrd
Marietta, Ohio
Little Computer People: Tb learn the complete vocabulary of
the Little Computer People Discovery Kit, load your Little Com Moon Patrol: If you press the space bar, this game will pause
puter People disk, reset the computer, then type this program, until you press it again or press the fire button. Don't be con
and type RUN <RETURN>: cerned if the screen changes color while on a pause — it will re
1 FOR A-49721 TO 51545 : B = PEEK(A) turn to its normal color when play resumes.
2IFB = 33ORB = 64ORB = 128THENB = 44 Michael Sounders
3 IF B<>44 OR C<>44 THEN PRINT CHR$(B);: C = B Las Vegas, Nevada
4 NEXT
Bobby Anastario One-on-One: In PRO computer, when the computer runs back to
Address Unknown clear the ball, run under the basket and stand still. If you're in
the right position, the computer will charge you almost every
Mail Order Monsters: Isn't it unfair how you only get $250 at time.
the Tburnament level? Tb increase your cash, use two-player Deepta Bhattacharya
mode. Buy whatever you like for your own Morph, but for the Address Unknown

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other category (Equipment or Modules), and repeat the proce
Operation Terminal: Try to keep your batteries charged so you dure. When you've bought lots of stuff and are back up to
can activate the jamming mode before entering a new room, $19,000 million, go back to budgeting and divide your money
keeping bombs in the room from exploding. This is especially evenly among R&D. Operations and Planning. You're now very
important when you are competing against a human, since hu well off. and should do quite nicely for the rest of the game.
mans can booby trap rooms that you thought were safe. Joel Steudler
Robert Wu Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Monterey Park, California
PSI 5 Trading Company: If there are no enemy ships in the
Pac-Man: Tb get unlimited lives in this game for the 64, just area, rank engines priority 1. When an enemy appeal's, put it
LOAD "PAC-MAN".8,1 then type: back to 3. This will gain you extra time.
POKE 34943.234 : POKE 34944,234 : POKE 34945,234 Lance Gater
SYS 32760 Trenton, New Jersey
The ghosts will fly right through you.
Andy Macan inch Q-bert: You don't have to wait until the end of the game to start
NewUnni, Pen ns\h ]a n ia over. Just press the RESTORE key.
Matt Massa
Tomahawk, Wisconsin
If you absolutely have to win a game, here's
Raid Over Moscow: When you've loaded the game, wait a min
a foolproof way to do it. ute or two and the computer will start playing by itself. When it
gets to the screen you want to play, push the joystick button and
take control of the game.
Paperboy: Tb get a great score at the end of the day, deliver the Chih Chiang
paper to only one house, then do as much destruction as you can. Salisbury, Maryland
Break windows, yank lids off garbage cans, and so forth.
Myong Pack Raid Over Moscow: Here's a good trick for the first screen.
Portland. Oregon When the bell rings, simultaneously press RUN:STOP and the
"Q" key. This will get you to the launch site screen where you
Phantasie: Run away from the Black Knight or you will lose have to shoot the center missile silo. You also will have nine
all your gold. Buy scrolls and then use them to print out onto men to shoot the silo.
paper. They will help you in the long run. Sean Kim
Ivan Moore Tacoma, Washington
Address Unknown
Realm of Impossibility: Sometimes you can cheat by walking
Pirates: If you attack on land, hide your armies in the woods. on the background. The mystical monsters cannot touch you
Use one of your groups as a decoy to get the enemy to approach. there.
You'll be surprised when you beat an army twice your size. Jerry Wyatt
Lance Gater Junction City, Ohio
Trenton, New Jersey
Revenge of the Mutant Camels: To get smoothly into cheat
Pitfall: When you are about to fall down a hole with a ladder mode, press "O" for options mode, then type "OATS" and play
after jumping a log, push down and you'll catch the ladder with the game. Apparently the camels like the food.
out losing any points. Daniel Kortschak
Michael Baumgart Beulah Park, Australia
Address Unknown
Roadwar 2000: Don't go into Fort Knox. Go to Mountain View
Pitstop II: At the start of the race when playing the computer. for Doctor, Drill Sergeant and Politician.
ram its car until you both get blown out tires. The computer has Lance Gater
to change its offside tire, while you only have to change your Trenton, New Jersey
nearside one. This gives you a head stall once your tire has been
changed. Sargon II: Are you tired of losing to your computer? Try these
R. N. Gutierrez moves at level 2 or 3, and ignore Sargon's moves. Open with A2-
Veracruz, Mexico A4 and follow up with C2-C3, E2-E3. A4-A5, D1-A4, A5-A6, Fl-
Bo, A6xB7, B5xC6, C6xD7, B7xA8 — Checkmate!
Project: Space Station: With this tip you can gain millions and Robert A. Eckel
millions of dollars. When you are planning your mission budget, Farmington, Michigan
put all your money into either the Modules or Equipment cate
gory. Then go to that category and start spending. You should Seven Cities of Gold: When you have a good number of men,
notice after you buy the first item that the money you started off head for the Inca city that has a blue mark on it. It is the capital
with has doubled! Keep spending, and when you get down to and has a lot of gold.
$11,000 million or so, it again will jump to $19,000 million. Lance Gater
Then go back to the budget screen, transfer every cent to the Trenton, New Jersey

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101 Tips for Commodore Game Players
Summer Games I: In the 100 Meter Dash, the object is to gain
Seven Cities of Gold: In this game you have to explore North, speed by jiggling the joystick as fast as you can, either up and
Central and South America after buying men, food, ships and down or from side to side. You can do it more comfortably by
goods. But if you buy only one ship and one man, you can cruise moving the joystick in circles, either clockwise or counterclock
for two years without buying food! wise.
Using this tactic, I sailed from Europe to the Mississippi Riv Jonathan Stapinsky
er, then walked up to the Great Lakes and back, finally return Winnipeg, Manitoba
ing to Europe, all on no food. Canada
Mart Meleney
Millersville, Maryland Summer Games I: In the Pole Vault event on the 6 meter or
higher bar, choose the low pole grip and go under the bar. It
Skyfox: Go for the motherships Erst, then destroy the tanks and works, but you have to practice it.
then the planes. If your base is destroyed, you can still win if you Chih Chiang
destroy all the planes, tanks and motherships. Salisbury, Maryland
Use laser cannons mostly, save heat-seekers for motherships.
and use guided missiles against planes that are alone.
Allen Morano If you disqualify yourself in the 100 meter
Address Unknown
freestyle, you'll always get the gold medal.
Spell of Destruction: When entering an unfamiliar room for the
first time, you never know what you're up against. It's wise to
stay near the door so you can listen for the tell-tale music, wait Summer Games II: For a little extra distance in the Triple
for the attacker to show itself, then make an emergency exit. Jump, push the joystick up after each maneuver, For example,
Once you're outside, you can prepare the proper spell and work right, up, right, up, left, up. Using this trick, I raised my maxi
out your strategy against the aggressor. mum distance from 17.15 to 17.55.
Robert Wu Chris A. Bonk
Monterey Park, California Glenamn, Saskatchewan
Canada
Spy Hunter: Wait until the road widens, then drive over to the
right edge, not completely on the black border and not totally in Supercycle: This will help you master the quick turns. Watch
the trees, but halfway between the two. Increase your speed to the lane dividers at the top of the screen. These change direc
maximum and relax until around 12.000 points. At that time tion, indicating the direction of the next curve. Then when the
avoid the limousine. This trick allows you to skip the boats and curve comes up. you'll know which way to turn. This is useful
the helicopters. But if you ride over water past the broken when you've become disoriented after ducking and dodging oth
bridge this way, the bridge will keep coming until you go into er motorcycles.
your speedboat. Sidney Blaylock
David Bennett Address Unknown
Matthews, North Carolina
Superstar Ice Hockey: If you absolutely have to win a game,
Spy Hunter: When you're dropped off by the weapons van, next here's a foolproof way to do it, provided you have 500 to 600 trad
man, truck or tug boat, stay behind it for as long as possible. ing points. Draft a goaltender with absolutely no skills, then
This will wipe out most dangers such as mines, cars and boats. trade him to the opposition for all of your trading points. The
Nathan Gibbs trade should be successful, and when it is, you can score on every
Fernandina Beach, Florida shot on goal. Another powerful tactic works when you have con
trol of the puck in the opposition end. Skate to the side of the net
Stealth: You can get extra power by going through the positive onto the boards closest to you. Then skate up to the goalie and
power fields. If you go through slowly, you can get several times jam a pass into the short side. If it is done correctly, it has a 70%
the usual amount of fuel. efficiency rate going left to right and %9( going right to left (sec
Harry H. Eleas ond period). Don't push this one — it led me to two consecutive
Bristol, Tennessee undefeated seasons!
Chris A. Bonk
Summer Games 1: In the 4x400 Meter Relay event, you can ac Glenavon, Saskatchewan
tually do better if you lose to the computer. Let the computer Canada
win by purposely dropping the baton and going as slowly as pos
sible. With practice, your time can be just under two minutes. Swiss Family Robinson: Aloe is good for bee stings. The cave
Jonathan Stapinsky makes a good shelter.
Winnipeg, Manitoba Lance Gater
Canada Trenton, New Jersey

Summer Games I: If you disqualify yourself in the 100 meter Tag Team Wrestling: When playing the computer, keep him in
freestyle, you'll always get the gold medal. your comer and tag off after every two moves. When the darker
Deepta Bhattacharya guys are out of the ring and you are on the apron, run to the
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The programs which appear in this brackets. Refer to this chart whenever you zero to 255 to be poke-able. For example,
magazine have been run, tested and aren't sure what keys to press. The little the statement POKE 1024,260 would pro
checked for bugs and errors. After a pro graphic next to the keystrokes shows you duce an illegal quantity error because 260
gram is tested, it is printed on a letter what you will see on the screen. is greater than 255.
quality printer with some formatting Most often, the value being poked is a
changes. This listing is then photo SYNTAX ERROR variable lA,X...I. This error is telling you
graphed directly and printed in the maga This is by far the most common error ; that this variable is out of range. If the
zine. Using this method ensures the most encountered while entering a program. ! variable is being read from data state
error-free program listings possible. Usually (sorry folks! this means that you ments, then the problem is somewhere in
Whenever you see a word inside brack have typed something incorrectly on the the data statements. Check the data
ets, such as [DOWN|, the word represents line the syntax error refers to. If you get statements for missing commas or other
a keystroke or series of keystrokes on the the message '"Syntax Error Break In typos.
keyboard. The word [DOWNI would be Line 270", type LIST 270 and press If the variable is not coming from data
entered by pressing the cursor-down key. RETURN. This will list line 270 to the statements, then the problem will be a lit
If multiple keystrokes are required, the screen. Look for any non-obvious mis tle harder to find. Check each line that
number will directly follow the word. For takes like a zero in place of an 0 or vice- : contains the variable for typing mistakes.
example, ID0WN4] would mean to press versa. Check for semicolons and colons re
the cursor-down key four times. If there versed and extra or missing parenthesis. OUT OF DATA ERROR
are multiple words within one set of All of these things will cause a syntax This error message is always related to
brackets, enter the keystrokes directly error. , the data statements in a program. If this
after one another. For example, |DOWN, There is only one time a syntax error i error occurs, it means that the program
RIGHT2] would mean to press the cursor- will tell you the "wrong" line to look at. If j has run out of data items before it was
down key once and then the cursor-right the line the syntax error refers to has a supposed to. It is usually caused by a prob
key twice. Note: Do not enter the commas. function call (i.e., FN A(3)), the syntax lem or typo in the data statements. Check
In addition to these graphic symbols, error may be in the line that defines the first to see if you have left out a whole line
the keyboard graphics are all represented function, rather than the line named in of data. Next, check for missing commas
by a word and a letter. The word is either the error message. Look for a line near between numbers. Reading data from a
SHFT or CMD and represents the SHIFT the beginning of the program (usually) page of a magazine can be a strain on the
key or the Commodore key. The letter is that has DEF FN A(X) in it with an equa brain, so use a ruler or a piece of paper or
one of the letters on the keyboard. The tion following it. Look for a typo in the anything else to help you keep track of
combination [SHFT E] would be entered equation part of this definition. where you are as you enter the data.
by holding down the SHIFT key and
pressing the E. A number following the ILLEGAL QUANTITY ERROR OTHER PROBLEMS
letter tells you how many times to type This is another common error message. It is important to remember that the 64
the letter. For example, [SHFT A4.CMD This can also be caused by a typing error, and the PET/CBM computers will only ac
B3] would mean to hold the SHIFT key but it is a little harder to find. Once again, cept a line up to 80 characters long. The
and press the A four times, then hold list the line number that the error mes VIC 20 will accept a line up to 88 charac
down the Commodore key and press the sage refers to. There is probably a poke ters long. Sometimes you will find a line
B three times. statement on this line. If there is, then the in a program that runs over this number
The following chart tells you the keys to error is referring to what is trying to be of characters. This is not a mistake in the
press for any word or words inside of poked. A number must be in the range of listing. Sometimes programmers get so
carried away crunching programs that
they use abbreviated commands to get
i
" = UNSHIFTED CUU HOME (PURPLE)" = CONTROLS

] "[GREEN]"-CONTROL 6
more than 80 (or 88) characters on one
"1CLEAR1" = SHIFTED CLR/HOME
a. line. You can enter these lines by abbrevi
fij [DOWN]" = CURSOR DOWN E [fl ■■[YELLOW]1=CONTROL8
iBLUE]" = CONTROL7
ating the commands when you enter the
Q '-iUP]" = CURSOR OP [FA] ' =F4
line. The abbreviations for BASIC com
H"1RJOHT!" = CURSOR RIGHT ] ■■[ORANGE]--COMMODORE 1 J"|F5I"-F5 mands are on pages 133-134 of the VIC 20
II '-[LEFT]""CURSOR LEFT B [BROWN]" -COMMODORE 2 user guide and 130-131 of the Commodore
[3 "iRVSl" = CONTROL 9 n-jL RED]" = COMMODORE 3 64 user's guide.
B "1RVOFF1"= CONTROL 0 H "IGRAY1!" =COMMODORE 4 B"[F8]"-F8 If you type a line that is longer than 80
E3 jGRAY2r = COMMODORE 5 J£]"IPOUND]" = ENGLISH (or 88) characters, the computer will act as
|j -IBLACK]"" CONTROL 1
if everything is ok, until you press RE
|3 ■■jWHrTE|" = CONTROL 2 i| |L GREEN!' = COMMODORE 6 POUND

0 "[SHFT TURN. Then, a syntax error will be dis

S !RED]-=CONTROL3 1"|L BLUE|- = COMMODORE 7 I1 -Pi SYMBOL
played (without a line number). Many
t] "|CYAN1"=CONTBOL4 S";GRAY3|" -COMMODORE 8 | "IT ■ UP ARROW
people write that the computer gives them
GRAPHIC SYMBOLS WILL BE REPRESENTED AS EITHER THE LETTERS a syntax error when they type the line, or
SHFT (SHIFT) AND A KEY ("[SHFT Q,SHFT J.SHFT D.SHFT S]") OR THE that the computer refuses to accept a line.
LETTERS CMDR (COMMODORE) AND A KEY ("[CMDR Q.CMDR Both of these problems are results of typ
G.COMDR Y.CMDR H|"). IF A SYMBOL IS REPEATED. THE NUMBER OF ing a line of more than 80 (or 88) charac
REPITITIONS WILL BE DIRECTLY AFTER THE KEY AND BEFORE THE ters.
COMMA ("|SPACE3,SHFT S4.CMDR M21").

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How to Enter Programs

You can't get the program to run and you The name of the program
THE PROGRAM WONT RUN!! can't find any errors in your typing. What The issue of the magazine it was in
This is the hardest of problems to re do you do? As always, we suggest that you The computer you are using
solve; no error message is displayed, but try a local user group for help. In a group Any eiTor messages and the line
the program just doesn't run. This can be of even just a dozen members, someone is numbers
caused by many small mistakes typing a bound to have typed in the same program. Anything displayed on the screen
program in. First check that the program The user group may also have the pro A printout of your listing (if
was written for the computer you are us gram on a library disk and be willing to possible)
ing. Check to see if you have left out any make a copy for you. All of this information is helpful in an
lines of the program. Check each line of If you do get a working copy, be sure to swering your questions about why a pro
the program for typos or missing pai-ts. Fi compare it to your own version so that you gram doesn't work. A letter that simply
nally, press the RUN/STOP key while the can learn from your errors and increase states "I get an error in line 250 whenever
program is "running". Write down the line you understanding of programming. I run the program" doesn't give us much
the program broke at and try to follow the If you live in the country, don't have a to go on. Send your questions to:
program backwards from this point, look local user group, or you simply can't get Commodore Magazine
ing for problems. any help, write to us. If you do write to us, 1200 Wilson Drive
include the following information about West Chester, PA 19380
IF ALL ELSE FAILS the program you are having problems ATTN: Program Problem
You've come to the end of your rope. with: Have run with the programs! Q

HOW TO USE THE MAGAZINE ENTRY PROGRAMS'

The Magazine Entry Programs on the SYS4867 on the 128. to fix them.
next pages are two BASIC machine The checksums for each line are the NO CHECKSUM: This means that you
language programs that will assist you in same for both the 64 and 128, so you can forgot to enter the apostrophe and the four
entering the programs in this magazine enter your 64 programs on the 128 if you'd letters at the end of the line. Move the
correctly. There are versions for both the like. cursor to the end of the line you just typed
Commodore 64 and the Commodore 128. and enter the checksum.
Once the program is in place, it works its Typing the Programs QUOTE: This means that you forgot (or
magic without you having to do anything All the BASIC program listings in this added) a quote mark somewhere in the
else. The program will not let you enter a magazine that are for the 64 or 128 have line. Check the line in the magazine and
line if there is a typing mistake on it, and an apostrophe followed by four letters at correct the quote.
better yet, it identifies the kind of error for the end of the line (e.g., 'ACDF). If you KEYWORD: This means that you have
you. plan to use the Magazine Entry Program j either forgotten a command or spelled one
to enter your programs, the apostrophe j of the BASIC keywords (GOTO.
Getting Started and letters should be entered along with : PRINT..) incorrectly. Check the line in
Type in the Magazine Entry Program the rest of the line. This is a checksum the magazine again and check your spell
carefully and save it as you go along (just that the Magazine Entry Program uses. ing.
in case), Once the whole program is typed Enter the line and the letters at the end # OF CHARACTERS: This means
in, save it again on tape or disk. Now and then press RETURN, just as you nor , that you have either entered extra charac
RUN the program. The word POKING mally would. ters or missed some characters. Check the
will appear on the top of the screen with a If the line is entered correctly, a bell is line in the magazine again. This error
number. The number will increment from sounded and the line is entered into the message will also occur if you misspell a
49152 up to 49900 (4864-5545 on the 128) computer's memory < without the charac I BASIC command, but create another
and just lets you know that the program is ters at the end). | keyword in doing so. For example, if you
running. If everything is ok, the program If a mistake was made while entering misspell PRINT as PRONT, the 64 sees
will finish running and say DONE. Then the line, a noise is sounded and an error the letter P and R, the BASIC keyword
type NEW. If there is a problem with the message is displayed. Read the error mes ON and then the letter T. Because it sees
data statements, the program will tell you sage, then press any key to erase the mes the keyword ON, it thinks you've got too
where to find the problem. Otherwise the sage and correct the line. many characters, instead of a simple mis
program will say "mistake in data state spelling. Check spelling of BASIC com
ments." Check to see if commas are miss IMPORTANT mands if you can't find anything else
ing, or if you have used periods instead of If the Magazine Entry Program sees a wrong.

commas. Also check the individual data mistake on a line, it does not enter that UNIDENTIFIED: This means that you
items. line into memory. This makes it impossi have either made a simple spelling error,
Once the program has run, it is in ble to enter a line incorrectly. you typed the wrong line number, or you
memory ready to go. To activate the pro typed the checksum incorrectly. Spelling
gram type SYS49152 (SYS4864 on the Error Messages and errors could be the wrong number of
128), and press RETURN. You are now What They Mean spaces inside quotes, a variable spelled
ready to enter the programs from the There are five error messages that the wrong, or a word misspelled. Check the
magazine. To disable the Entry Program, Magazine Entry Program uses. Here they line in the magazine again and correct the
just type KILL [RETURN] on the 64 or are, along with what they mean and how mistake. Q

COMMODORE MAGAZINE 125

Magazine Entry Program—64
1033 DATA 91, 91,0D,20,20,20,20,20
1034 DATA 20,20,20,20,20,20,20,20
The Magazine Hniry Programs are available on disk, along with other programs in this
1035 DATA 20,20,20,20,20,20,20,91
magazine. for $9.95. To oi
1036 DATA 0D,51,55,4F,54,4 5,00,4B
1037 DATA 4 5,59,57,4F,52,44,00,23
10 PRINT"[CLEAR3P0KING -"; 1038 DATA 20,4F,46,20,43,48,41,52
1039 DATA 41,43,54,45,52,53,00,55
20 P = 49152 :REM SC000 (END AT
1040 DATA 4E,49,44,45,4E,54,49,46
49900/SC2EC) 1041 DATA 49,45,44,00,4E,4F,20,43
1042 DATA 48,45,43,4B,53,55,4D,00
30 READ A$ :IF A$="END"THEN 110
1043 DATA C8,B1,7A,D0,FB,84,FD,C0
40 L=ASC(MIDS(A$,2,1) ) 1044 DATA 09,10,03,4C,84,Cl,88,88
1045 DATA 88,88,88,B1,7A,C9,27,D0
50 H=ASC{MID$(A$,1,1) )
1046 DATA 13,A9,00,91,7A,C8,A2,00
60 L = L-48: IF L>9 THEN L=L-7 1047 DATA B1,7A,9D,3C,03,C8,E8,E0
1048 DATA 04,D0,F5,6 0,A9,04,4C,CA
70 H= H-48: IF H>9 THEN H=H-7
1049 DATA C0,A0,00,B9,00,02,99,40
80 PRINT"[HOME,RIGHT12]"P;
1050 DATA 03,F0,F0,C8,D0,F5,A0,00

90 IF H>15 OR L>15 THEN PRINT 1051 DATA B9,40,03,F0,E6,99,00,02

1052 DATA C8,D0,F5,20,96,C1,4C,12
:PRINT" DATA ERROR IN LINE";
1053 DATA C2,A0,09,A9,00,99,03,C0
1000+INT((P-49152J/8):STOP
1054 DATA 8D,3C,03,88,10,F7,A9,80
100 B=H*16+L:POKE P,B:T=T+B:P=P+1 1055 DATA 85,02,A0,00,20,58,Cl,20
1 fx
1056 DATA 8 9,C1,20,ED,C1,E6,7A,E6
CjOIU -5t)
•
1057 DATA 7B,20,7C,A5,A0,00,20,80
110 IF TO86200 THEN PRINT 1058 DATA C0,F0,D0,24,02,F0,06,4C
1059 DATA A8,C0,4C,CE,C1,C9,22,D0
PRINT"MISTAKE IN DATA CHECK
1060 DATA 06,20,8D,C0,4C,CE,C1,20
DATA STATEMENTS":END 1061 DATA BA,C0,4C,CE,C1,A0,00,B9
1062 DATA 00,02,20,74,C0,C8,90,0A
120 PRINT"DONE":END
1063 DATA 18,6D,07,C0,8D,07,C0,4C
1000 DATA 4C,IF,C0,00,00,00,00,00
1064 DATA EF,C1,88,A2,00,B9,00,02
1001 DATA 00,00,00,00,00,0D,00,21
1065 DATA 9D,00,02,F0,04,E8,C8,D0
1002 DATA C1,27,C1,2F,C1,3F,C1,4C
1066 DATA F4,60,18,AD,09,C0,69,41
1003 DATA C1,EA,EA,EA,4C,54,C0,A2
1067 DATA 8D,09,C0,38,AD,0A,C0,E9
1004 DATA 05,BD,19,C0,95,7 3,CA,10
1068 DATA 19,90,06,8D,0A,C0,4C,1C
1005 DATA F8,60,60,A0,03,B9,00,02
D9,04,C1,D0,F5,88,10,F5 1069 DATA C2,AD,0A,C0,69,41,8D,0A
1006 DATA
1007 DATA A0,0 5,B9,A2,E3,9 9,7 3,00 1070 DATA C0,AD,03,C0,6D,0 5,C0,48
1008 DATA 88,10,F7,A9,00,8D,18,D4 1071 DATA AD,04,C0,6D,06,C0,8D,0C
1009 DATA 4C,EF,C0,E6,7A,D0,0 2,E6 1072 DATA C0,68,6D,08,C0,8D,0B,C0

1010 DATA 7B,4C,79,00,A5,9D,F0,F3 1073 DATA AD,0C,C0,6D,07,C0,8D,0C

1011 DATA A5,7A,C9,FF,D0,ED,A5,7B 1074 DATA C0,38,E9,19,90,06,8D,0C

1012 DATA C9,01,D0,E7,20,2B,C0,AD 1075 DATA C0,4C,52,C2,AD,0C,C0,69
1013 DATA 00,02,20,74,C0,90,DC,A0 1076 DATA 41,8D,0C,C0,AD,0B,C0,E9
1014 DATA 00,4C,A9,C1,C9,30,30,06 1077 DATA 19,90,06,8D,0B,C0,4C,67
1015 DATA C9,3A,10,02,3 8,60,18,60 1078 DATA C2,AD,0B,C0,69,41,8D,0B
1016 DATA C8,B1,7A,C9,20,D0,03,C8 C0,A0,01,AD,09,C0,CD,3C
1079 DATA
1017 DATA D0,F7,Bl,7A,60,18,C8,Bl
1080 DATA 03,D0,20,C8,AD,0A,C0,CD
1018 DATA 7A,F0f37,C9,22,F0,F5,6D 3D,03,D0,17,C8,AD,0B,C0
1081 DATA
1019 DATA 03,C0,8D,03,C0,AD,04,C0
1082 DATA CD,3E,03,D0,0E,AD,0C,C0
1020 DATA 6 9,00,8D,04,C0,4C,8E,C0
1083 DATA CD,3F,03,D0,06,20,CC,C2
1021 DATA 18,6D,05,C0,8D,0 5,C0,90
1084 DATA 4C,4B,C0,98,48,68,4C,CA
1022 DATA 03,EE,06,C0,EE,09,C0,4C
1085 DATA C0,A9,20,8D,00,D4,8D,01
1023 DATA CE,C1,18,6D,08,C0,8D,08
1086 DATA D4,A9,09,8D,05,D4,A9,0F
1024 DATA C0,90,03,EE,07,C0,EE,0A
1087 DATA 8D,18,D4,60,20,A9,C2,A9
1025 DATA C0,60,0A,A8,B9,0F,C0,85
1088 DATA 81,20,DF,C2,A9,80,20,DF
1026 DATA FB,B9,10,C0,85,FC,A0,00
1027 DATA A9,12,20,D2,FF,B1,FB,F0 1089 DATA C2,4C,D9,C2,20,A9,C2,A9
1028 DATA 06,20,D2,FF,C8,D0,F6,20 1090 DATA 11,20,DF,C2,A9,10,20,DF
1029 DATA BC,C2,20,E4,FF,F0,FB,A0 1091 DATA C2,A9,00,8D,04,D4,60,8D
1030 DATA 18,B9,08,C1,20,D2,FF,88 1092 DATA 0 4,D4,A2,70,A0,00,88,D0
1031 DATA 10,F7,68,68,A9,00,8D,00 1093 DATA FD,CA,D0,FA,60,END
1032 DATA 02,4C,74,A4,4B,49,4C,4C END

126 FEBRUARY 1988

Magazine Entry Program- — 100
1L u

1038 DATA 45 ,44,00 ,4E ,4F ,20 ,43 ,48

5 TRAP 200
1039 DATA 45 ,43,4B ,53 ,55 ,4D ,00 ,C8
10 PRINT" [CLEAR]POKING - ■■ ■

1040 DATA Bl ,3D,D0 ,FB ,98 ,30 ,04 ,C9

20 P=4864 :REM $1300 (END AT
1041 DATA 06 ,30,IE ,88 ,88 ,88 ,88 ,88
5545/51!
1042 DATA Bl ,3D,C9 27 ,D0 ,13 ,A9 ,00
30 REAL ; AS=" END "THEN
1043 DATA 91 ,3D,C8 ,A2 ,00 B1 , 3D ,r 9D
80 pr: vi (: [HOME
***

RIGHT ..' ! p -

1044 DATA 00 ,0B,C8 ,E8 ,E0 ,04 , D0 ,F5

100 B=DEC (A$ > :POE P, B:T =T+B:P= P+l
1045 DATA 60 ,4C,5C ,15 ,4C ,C5 ,14 ,A0
:GOTO 30
1046 DATA 09 ,A9,00 99 ,06 ,13 ,8D ,00
110 IF TO! THEN PRINT
1047 DATA 0B ,88,10 F7 fA9 ,80 ,85 ,FD
:print11 . . ..,: : IN DATA ~: CHECK
1048 DATA A0 ,00,20 3F ,14 ,20 ,AE ,14
: ;": 3ND
r -*■ ■*
3ATA state:- :
1049 DATA 20 ,0D,43 84 , FA , A0 , FF ,20
1000
mm *-

DATA 4C IE ,13 ,4C ,3A ,13,00 00

1050 DATA 67 ,13,F0 D8 ,24 ,FD ,F0 ,06
1001 DATA 8E ,00 ,F7 ,00 ,42 ,41,51 57
1051 DATA 20 ,8F,13 4C ,8F ,14 ,C9 ,22
1002 0D ,00 ,0D ,43 ,08 ,14,0E
, *— -»

DATA 14
1052 DATA D0 ,06,20 74 ,13 ,4C ,8F ,14
1003
r v *» r ■*- *
DATA 16 ,14 ,26 ,14 ,33 ,14,A9 00
1053 DATA 20 ,9F,13 4C r8F ,14 ,A0 ,00
1004 DATA 8D ,00 ,FF ,AD ,04 ,03,8D, 12
1054 DATA B9 ,00,02 20 ,5B ,13 ,C8 ,90
1005 DATA 13 ,AD ,05 ,03 ,8D
r w* ,13,13, A2
1055 DATA 0A 18,6D, 0A 13 8D ,0A 13
1006 DATA 4A A0 ,13 8E ,04 03,8C, 05
1056 DATA 4C B0,14, 88 60 18 AD 0C
1007 DATA 03 ,60 ,AD ,12 ,13 ,8D,04, 03
1057 DATA 13 69,41, 8D 0C 13 38 AD
1008 DATA AD 13 ,13 ,8D ,05 03,60, 6C 1058 DATA 0D 13,E9, 19 90 06 8D 0D
1009 DATA 12 13 ,A5 ,7F ,D0 F9,AD, 00
1059 DATA 13 4C,CF, 14 AD 0D 13 69
1010 DATA 02 20 ,5B 13 ,90 F1,A0, 00
1060 DATA 41 8D,0D, 13 AD 06 13 6D
1011 DATA 4C 6F ,14 C9 ,30 30,06, C9
1061 DATA 08 13,48, AD 07 13 6D 09
1012 DATA 3A rl0 ,02 ,38 ,60 ,18,60, C8
1062 DATA 13 8D,0F, 13 68 6D 0B 13
1013 DATA Bl 3D ,C9 ,20 ,D0 03,C8, D0
1063 DATA 8D 0E,13, AD 0F 13 6D 0A
1014 DATA F7 Bl ,3D ,60 ,18 ,C8,B1, 3D
1064 DATA 13 8D,0F, 13 38 E9 19 90
1015 DATA F0, 35 C9, 22 ,F0, F5,6D, 06
1065 DATA 06 8D,0F, 13, 4C, 05, 15, AD
1016 DATA 13 8D ,06 13 ,AD 07,13, 69
1066 DATA 0F, 13,69, 41, 8D, 0F 13 AD
1017 DATA 00, 8D ,07, 13 ,4C, 75,13, 18
1067 DATA 0E, 13,E9, 19, 90, 06, 8D, 0E
1018 DATA 6D, 08 13, 8D ,08, 13,90, 03
1068 DATA 13, 4C,1A, 15, AD, 0E, 13, 69
1019 DATA EE, 09 ,13 EE ,0C, 13,60, 18
1069 DATA 41, 8D,0E, 13, A0, 01, AD, 0C
1020 DATA 6D, 0B 13, 8D 0B, 13,90, 03
1070 DATA 13, CD,00, 0B, D0, 20, C8, AD
1021 DATA EE, 0A, 13, EE 0D, 13,60, 0A
1071 DATA 0D, 13,CD, 01, 0B, D0, 17, C8
1022 DATA A8, B9 14, 13 85, FB,B9, 15
1072 DATA AD, 0E,13, CD, 02, 0B, D0, 0E
1023 DATA 13, 85 FC, A0 00, 8C,00, FF
1073 DATA AD, 0F,13, CD, 03, 0B, D0, 06
1024 DATA A9, 12 20, D2 ,FF, B1,FB, F0
1074 DATA 20, 89,15, A4, FA, 60, 98, 48
1025 DATA 06, 20 ,D2 FF rC8 D0,F6, 20
1075 DATA 68, 4C,AF, 13, A9, 04, AC, AF
1026 DATA 79, 15 ,20, A3 ,15, 20,E4, FF
1076 DATA 13, A9,00, 8D, 00, FF, 20
1027 DATA F0, FB, A0, IB B9, EF,13, 20
1077 DATA 8D, 00,D4, 8D, 01, D4, A9, 09
1028 DATA D2, FF 88, 10 F7, 68,68, A9
1078 DATA 8D, 05,D4, A9, 0F, 8D, 18, D4
1029 DATA 00, 8D 00, 02 4C, B7,4D, 91
1079 DATA 60, 20,61, 15, A9, 81, 20, 9C
1030 DATA 91, 0D, 20, 20 20, 20,20, 20
1080 DATA 15, A9,80, 20, 9C, 15, 4C, 96
1031 DATA 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20,20, 20
1081 DATA 15, 20,61, 15, A9, 11, 20, 9C
1032 DATA 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20,91, 0D
1082 DATA 15, A9,10, 20, 9C, 15, A9, 00
1033 DATA 51, 55, 4F, 54, 45, 00,4B, 45
1083 DATA 8D, 04,D4, 60, 8D, 04, D4, A2
1034 DATA 59, 57, 4F, 52, 44, 00,23, 20 t
1084 DATA 70, A0,00, 88, D0, FD, CA, D0
1035 DATA 4F, 46, 20, 43, 48, 41,52, 41
1085 DATA FA, 60,END
1036 DATA 43, 54, 45, 52, 53, 00,55, 4E

1037 DATA 49, 44, 45, 4E, 54, 49,46, 49 ehu

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101 Tips for Commodore Game Players ADVERTISERS INDEX'
Continued from pg. 119
Reader
Response Page
white post. This keeps the computer on your side of the ring and Advertiser NO. No.
will aid in quick pins. Abacus Software 1 51
Paul Jordan Action Soft 2 22,23
Glenwood, Illinois
Activision 3 9,31,47

Treasure Island: When you get to the storm, type "tie rope" and Berkeley Softworks 4 26,29,42,43

you'll pass it easily. Briwall 5 61

Loc Huynh *
105,111
C.O.M.B. Company
Address Unknown
Cheatsheel Products 6 60

Ultima IV: Exit from Dungeon Hythlothe and you end up on a CompuServe 7 37
clearing in the Isle of the Abyss. Go west and you'll find the bal Computer Direct (Protecto) 8 120,121,122,123
loon. The White Stone is in a mountain valley only reachable by
Cosmi 9 11,53
balloon. You can recognize it by an ankh that is one space north
Covox 10 64
of a clear ground space in the Serpent's Spine Mountains.
The Black Stone is caught in a Moon Gate. Stand over the Data East USA 11 25
Moon Gate on Verity Isle before it comes up. Search there when Electronic Arts 12 2,27,57
both moons are new.
Ennon Corporator) 13 63
Search the deepest waters of the Cape of Heroes for the wheel
14 35,59
of H.M.S. Cape, When used on a ship, it raises the hull points to Epyx

99, which is needed to pass the pirate ships guarding the en Financial Service Marketing 15 55
trance to the Abyss. Firebird Licensees 16 45
For the entry word of the Abyss, ask the rulers of the three
Free Spirit Software 17 64
Lesser Castles for the "word." Each ruler knows one syllable of
the entire word. Halix Institute
*
107

Bob Kopperl Kasara Microsystems 18 85

Jenison, Michigan Ketek 19 93
*
Konami 21
Wizard: Tb get a lot of points and a lot of men, choose CUSTOM
IZED and on the second board choose JAIL. You will be in be Loadstar 21 C2

tween a block. Push the button to climb up the rope, then go to Master Designer Software 22 19
the dot on the right and hold him on there. The points will Master Software 23 107
mount up.
Micro Illusions 24 C3
Mark Brenner
Chattanooga, Tennessee MicroProse 25 5

Midwest Software 26 85
Wizard: On the first screen of the expert level, just get a key and 27 39
Mimetics
eliminate all the snowballs. Then go to the top of one of the two
Mindscape 28 41
center ladders by inching up one side. Jump toward the center
treasure inside the skulls and sit back while your score increases Montgomery Grant 29 79
forever! The only way to get back out is to lose a man, but one NewTek 30 1
from a hundred won't be too painful.
NPS Inc. 31 101
Chris Porosky
NRI/McGraw Hill • 33,81
Elmira, New York
Pro-Tech-Tronics 32 89
Wizard's Crown I: There are more survivors if you flee in tacti Quantum Computer Services 33 46,49
cal combat than in quick combat.
R J. Brachman 34 97
JeffLohineier
S & S Wholesalers 35 87
Ferndale, Michigan
Seif-Help Legal Services 36 101
Zork I: When you encounter the Cyclops, type in the word Soft Byte 37 101
ODYSSEUS. This will make the Cyclops run through the door
Strategic Simulations 38 04
into the house.
Dan Haveman SubLogic Corporation 39 13

Grand Rapids, Michigan Tevex 40 83

*
Time Life Books 17
Ifyou have game tips ofyour own, write them up, one per full-
Timeworks 41 14,15
size sheet, and send them to:
Louis F. Sander Tussey Computer Products 42 6,7

P.O. Box 101011 'No Reader Response Number given at Advertiser's Request.
Pittsburgh, PA 15237 B

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that are as simple or complex as Bomber Group. liut first, you must
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Give your men and machines bomber group and race to the
different attributes such as unit type, weapon type and firepower, fighter rendezvous points. Your escort fighters can only stay up for a
movement and strength points. limited time, so don't be late.
You can create scenarios from any period of military history, If you get hit, you'll have to decide whether to bail out or stick
from Ancient wars with spears and catapults to modern conflicts it out and do your job — reducing Ploesti's total oil production below
using state-of-the-art missiles and tanks. Or you can forget about what was accomplished historically. If you succeed, you'll be told how
reality and create sword-and-sorcery fantasy adventures and much you would have shortened the war in Europe!
science-fiction battles.
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