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These criticisms forced Cool World the movie to go straight to video in the UK, so there seemed little hope tor the C64 conversion. Ocean have Hudson Hawked it once again! They visit beautiful courses, earn horrendous amounts of cash and get treated as celebs. Well, Nicky can't promise you glamour, riches and travel but it can deliver some of the hottest golfing action ever seen on C64I Can it beat Leaderboard? Play a round with Mr Faldo. The tee's on p. Joystick port 2 Up - Roll and fire up. Down - Move and fire down. Joystick port 2 Up - Moves the cursor up.
Joystick port 2 Up - Goes to the menu bar and scrolls through options. Down - Scrolls through menu options and goes back to full screen. Joystick in port 2 Up - Nose down. Left - Bank left, select weapon on stores screen. Right - Bank right, deselect weapon. Joystick port 2 Up - Forward. Right - Steer right. A 78 per cent review in last month's CF and now he's on the Power Pack in five brain-teasing lev- els put together especially tor you by the guys at Alternative.
The first thing to do before you start to roll Rutus around with the joystick is to take a good look at the screen and identity the blocks on it - our panel below should help. The num- bered blocks are rather special: The standard brown blocks and the blocks with numbers on them are the only sate places to stand while you chew the and decide where to go next But be wary cos some nasty tiles are disguised as standard blocks - they only show their true selves it Ru'us rolls on to them. You have only one weapon to defend your- self against the roaming aliens; a laser t gun with a limited number of shots, k Kill the enemies that zoom around the screen with a hit on the fire bulton while pointing the joystick in the direction you want to shoot You have to be quick with the laser, because as soon as you touch a baddre you die - you get no second chance in this game well, you do actually because you've got three lives, but that doesn't sound as melodramatic.
The aliens do move In regular patterns so work out who's going where and you're half way to, um, the next level. Electric Block - Touch this when it's on and Rufus will be no more. Klnvisi-block - Hit this and you'll disappear and have invincibility. M Sticky Block - It'll stick you to the spot for a mo. Hyper- space - Come in twos. Jump Into one and you're warped to the other. You watt till you're stuck in a bunker. Grandslam, Joystick port 2 Nick Fakto's is a golf game with a difference or two. For one thing, there's no waiting around in Nick Fakios lor screen updates that could have been done quicker if you'd whipped out Saracen Paint and drawn the course yourseH.
This game is quick- There's also a smart option screen which you access by pushing up on the joystick Besides the usual choice of club and power that you get with most golf sims, Nick Fatdo's requires you to take into account virtually every fac- tor you would have to in real golf, including such things as being able to alter your stance.
To set each ele- ment of a particular shot, cycle through the options with your Joystick, select the one you want to change with fire, then alter the value by moving your joystick left and right- Hit fire again to confirm the change then move the cursor down off the bottom of the menu bar to go back to the main screen. To play the stroke first of ad aim the direction of your shot with left and right on the joystick the white cursor shows the direction of the shot. When you're satisfied with the set-up, hit fire- Across the top of the screen will appear a power bar that will move quickly from left to right.
Jab down to get back to the full screen, Hit fire to play the shot, but this time hold the button down. Again, a power bar will come up, but this time it's a bit different If the bar reaches the tar right then that's a per cent whack. Pult the Joystick up to get lo it, scroll around the options and hit tire to select the one you want to alter. Rotate the view ol Your stance alters Rotate the view of the fairway left, the curve of the bait fairway I I finally nude the green in 27 strokes.
How, tf only I could get the ball in that blimmin' holo. Tells you what ground the ball is on. Klngsott, Joystick port 2 Are you a train-spotting, logic puzzle addict? I wouldn't admit to ft either But if you are, then Locomotion is the ideal game tor you. The baste Idea is to guide trains to their destination sin tion. When a station starts to Hash it heralds the Imminent departure of a train. The train will emerge with a letter attached lo it, that letter indicating which station that train has to go to. All the BR staff however, seem to have taken their hols at the same time and have left you to deal with switching the points on the railway tracks.
The points are the places where two tracks diverge; they can be switched to allow the train to go In either direc- tion. The trains wHI keep on chuffing until they hit a bumper at a station and turn around, come to a break in the track and stop, hit another train and spin across the countryside or reach the destination station unscathed. Changing the points is a piece ol cake - all you do is use the joystick to position a cursor over the point you want to change and hit Ire. First off you're presented with eight clipboards full of missions to complete.
Press fire when the cursor is over one ot the missions to read It. If voalmc mission you fancy taking on then move the hand- shaped cursor to the aero- plane tcon and hit fire. You'll be whisked to a runway, somewhere incommuni- signals - swarms of helicopters cado. Once In the cockpit no snig- gering at the back , the take of and fuelling are on auto- matic.
Basically all you have to worry about Is steering with your joystick and blasting everything you see. Take note of the radar and warning of it- Is it somewhere in the Sudan? Select a weapon by positioning the cursor over It and Jab left to add it to your stock ot goodies or quency You don't have to worry about keeping an eye on fuel consumption, the plane will switch to auto and land for you. Then all you have to do is wait for the fuel truck then fly off to destroy some more battleships.
All hght here goes: It could cause serious problems, though, when you go I'll have three Twines and a bag of charcoal bricquettes please. Use ft to blast seven shades of what ever has seven shades out ot your cross-coun- try rivals And when you destroy someone else's car you earn more money to buy even more weapons. However, your car will disintegrate if you touch any water or bricks and you ll lose copious amounts ol energy for Just hit- ting a tree.
So don't touch hina but the joystick. I could 'ive it with my eyes closed. Even just a wheel arch in the drink and rust sets in at the speed of lightning. There are two scree on the demo - to get lo lhe second one us1 hit Space. TV moOotaior and arnart card af H Kanoard. StfrUns 11tRWf t odord S: Company Name rl appftcatM: So it's strange how they always seem to be heroic figures in films and books. One outlaw who's had more than his fair share of good pub- licity is Robin Hood, while poor old King John - who had to cope with a bunch of whinge- ing Celts wnen his brother was off having a whale of a time at the Crusades - Is always por- trayed as a baddie.
Hood fellow giving him a hard time. Sometimes, who the heroes and villains are in cases like this is all a matter of perspective. CodeMasters have decided not to lake the chance to redress the histoncai balance, and have gone with the popular flow with their latest C64 version of the legend.
Though the game's not com- ing out until the end of January I managed to sneak a look at it during a recent mid- night mooch around the Codies' HO. It's a rather humungous loU" platform leap-about -thingy that's a bit like a Dizzy game but with loads of arrows whizzing about. Basically, Maid Marian's been cap- tured by the Sheriff of Nottingham. He's locked her away deep within Nottingham castle, and Robin's got to rescue her. You control Robin as he progresses ever deeper into castle. He has to leap around platforms, avoiding guards, arrows, mutant moles well, that's what they look like and other assorted nasties that'll sap his energy or nick his lives.
He also needs to pick up keys which open up secret doors and work out how to reach hard-to-get- at treasure see, he's not ust in it to rescue the damsel in distress while loosing off a few arrows of his own at the enemy. The graphics look great, and despite being set completely within a castle, there's a decent variety of backgrounds. Robin himself is wonderfully drawn and animated though, strangely, he looks especially good when he's just about to die and turns silver.
Okay, so you won't be play- ing this as part of your GCSE history course, but since when did factual accuracy play a part In a game's success? Pheasants are bred or their throw-themselves- in-front-oNa-shot-gun suicidal tendencies, people that eat at fast lood chains are taking their lives into their own hands and editors ot Commodore magazines are, by design, some kind of masochist. Although undeniably stupid, all these forms of madness can't compare In any way to the sheer crazy headedness and insanity of the lemming.
Ian Cyclopedia kindly explained to me that there is, however, a reason for their apparent total madness. Read on and be educated; the Norwegian lemming, or Lemmus Lemmus to it's friends, suffers a periodical rise in population once every few years. Unfortunately the cute little things aren't very bright and end up walking off cliff tops en-mass.
And somehow, these rather stupid creatures have been turned into the unlikeliest of computer game stars. Lemmings has been a hit both commer- cially and critically on every format. Your duty in the game is to stop as many of the harmless mammals as you can from throwing themselves off cliffs on to the rocks below or diving into the briny being not very bright and very hairy, they can't swim very well. Put simply, they're inca- pable of looking after themselves. They do have a number of special tal- ents but are too stupid to decide when to use them.
All they do Is walk. If prompted by you, though, they can perform such handy tricks as exploding, building steps, parachut- ing, climbing, standing still and stopping other lemmings from getting past, wielding pick axes and digging tunnels, all of which can help them and their mates get to safety except the exploding bit which is pretty terminal for the one involved.
I only wish I could do the same - a built-in parachute would come in very handy for some of my assign- ments. You chose an attribute from the menu at the bottom of the screen and dick on a lem- ming to give it that extra spe- cial something to make it stand out from the rest. Then use him to forge a path between the open trap door and the safe exit. By the way, did I mention that lemmings are stupid? And now they've found their way on to C64 t but not before a goodly number have perished fn the process Ithoy're none too bright.
Vou have to turn the Lemmings into floaters. For some daft reason the C64 is about the last format that Lemmings has been released on. But at least that gave me a chance to interrogate a tew writers on some ot our sister mags to find out what they thought of the game: It s scored around the 80 per cent mark on all the machines. In fact, It's a complete stonker. Not the way to do it.
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But the company reckons that you It be get- ting stuff that's well up to full price standards: We wanted to introduce a label that released high value products at a lower, more affordable price, says Alternative s Dave Watkins. Software sup- port and public Interest was strong but the potential nightmare ol copyrighl infringement has forced the company to abandon their plans They apologise lor any inconvenience and will deal Wilh any OUtSlanHinn anniilriiM.
This Is basketball, you throw the bad you don't kick It Right tads, this is the basket, you throw the ball In It. This way Dimbilby, this way. I always work on my own — I've learnt the hard way that it s better no! And in my line of work a split second's delay can mean the difference between success or ending up as a guard dog s dinner But computer games based on team sports are a different matter You don t need 22 people gathered around your 64; two at the most, and then you're playing against each other. Then you're presented with a choice between playing a single game f M or a lull tournament between eight teams.
In one-player mode you tight against the com- puter, which at amateur level is Ves, at last! It can take your opponents about 10 shots to score and that's when you're doing nothing. Mind you, set it to the pro fessional level and the opposition comes fnghteningly to form. The control method is easy to get the hang of - if you're not In possession of the ball, fire will swap control to the nearest player.
If you are in possession, run towards the basket and hit fire when you think you're close enough to score. Use the joystick to aim the ball Isn't it funny that all the players in most sports sims are well-built men? What's wrong with women playing sports? The sprites can't be that much more diffi- cult to design. Til hold on tor All- English Women's Rugby.
In lhe meantime I'll wait and see what the rest of the CF team locked away in a smelly office all day think of the fin- ished version of Ail-American Basketball. How you're gatting Hp Run towards the pick it up, then throw It. No Jenkins, not to a member of the other team, sigh! With it sank the secret of the most desjjiictive force oh earth. Even Trenton has a few things he'd like to change about himself and Clur has a few she'd like to make as well And this is the time of year when we can make those changes.
So what are the crew's New Year's resolutions? I've been far too easy on you lot recently. It's about time you actually did some work or a living. It's on January 1st. Last year I ended up having a birthday breakfast at the local Lmle Chet. The last one went hideously wrong. I wasn't sure what Ex-Lax did - it just smelt foul and tasted even worse, so I couldn't resist popping some into my mum's mixing bowl when she wasn't looking. The toilet was blocked for a week after Dave came round for tea and scoffed 20 of her pies.
He had planned on Dying it around the world, in the opposite direction to the spin ot the earth and cross the international date line 24 times to make it to 24 different New Year's parties in 24 different countries. But he got a puncture and watched Hogmany on TV instead. They're only about four foot tall but they're a pain to put back up again. My other is to go and visit my Aunt Jean soon. I havenl seen her for years. And after Trent's New Year announcement, she might even find my hair acceptable. That girl's got some disgusting habits.
Apart from that I've promised to have my fleet of 33 classic sports cars all fitted with catalytic converters. We all have to do our bit for the environment you know. I've also got to cut down on the sugar in my tea - I think I could do with just five spoons. Even if I did discover a fault in my psychological make-up, I would not have to wait for a certain day to make changes in my life. Time is immaterial to a race such as ours and what is time but a measure of age? Besides our age is not as important a factor in life as your intelligence quotient," CPs review system is immensely compli- cated.
Nobody except TMB could ever hope to understand It But, tor the record, here's how ft works even though, as we said, you won't stand a chance of getting to grips with its Intricate complexities. It shows you at-a-glance what the most Important positive and negative fac- ' tors about the game are probably. Next to It Is an Indeci- pherable rating mark.
Over 89 per cent means that the game is officially a Corker, and we don't go give that accolade away to any old rubbish. It also means that it you don't rush out and buy the game immediately, all your friends will talk about you in the most uncomplimentary terms behind your back. An heirloom, If you like. Nice Mr Gllham, who used lo work here left them to us. He was a nice man. FACI - Number of players. Gorgeous drawings showing how many folk can participate. Young Master Gllham's save option thing.
Forget that liny hole In the ] sides of Biros, too. We're talk- ing in -sco re table here. PAWS - Pause mode. It looks like they've finally got the games to start a whole new generation of CD-based gaming. Can you afford to miss MEGA's in-depth preview of the future of video games?
It could change the way you play Streetfighter 2 oops, let that one slip forever A Hurry, hurry hurry! It's the Gamebusters January clear-out. But stocks are limited, so check out all our departments NOW for the gaming solution bargains of a lifetime Time for some jolly japes. Enter any of the following to warp to the later levels: Heartfelt gratitude to Ray Burton for sending 'em in. Td Belief Jut superb Power Pack demo tempted you into buying Jhe game, you'll know just how tricky it canife. Get the ROPE, go to the ropebridge.
And here it Is well, most of it anyway - part two next month. Once everyone has been rescued, you'll have five stars left - THEO will use these to get home, leaving you with a piece of string 1 Is this the end tor Dizzy? How will our hero ever get back home? Tune in next month for a tew surprises. K Gti Vpcr Sw. Games Smref Cass The full solution to toughest game ever to grace the Power Pack. Andrew Dairies, maps by Andy Roberts. The pleas for help began the day CF24 went on sale because that's when we Jolly well fea- tured It on our Power Pack and they haven't let up since.
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So, to cheer you up here's the simply spiffing full solution to the whole bally thing. Just type In the words in capitals and follow the other Instructions. Then wander around until you gel captured. Lashings of ginger pop and sandwiches! What d'you mean you don't know what to do. We've already told you, twice! In issues 23 and 26 to be precise. Oh, so your dog eat those particular copies. Well, we'll be nice and go through the stages once more: Find the dataline s for the game you want to cheat on and add it them to the listing which you've either just typed in or reloaded from tape.
Do just that and the game will load automatically with the required cheats. Re-check and scrutinise very carefully, 6 And that's yer lot. More datalines next month! Can you contain yourselves? If you'd like to venture deeper into the game, try this listing POKE. I bet he drinks Carting Black Label. Nope, he just used a Sam's Corner cheat.
Accolade US Gold If, like Stuart Colebrook, you're a bit stuck for words when you meet other characters in this game, here's a handy list. Did you let school out already? I kinda like your spunk. John Duffy, K Samuel. Wayne Lewis and Dale Cartwright. Rather than repeat the cheat mode, here is a top-notch listing for infinite energy, infinite time and infinite shots on the last level. If you're in the same boat, load up your LCP and reset the com- puter. Now type in the following listing and RUN it to bring up a complete vocabulary list.
Steven Crawford, Lee After a hard day shooting gangsters Ness found that he was locked out of his flat. Tell you what, you need a cheat, and it just so happens I've got one handy. The border will change colour, and infinite CJs are yours. Andrew Harper, Chris James. Leo Barker and Gary Ramshaw. All orders sent by return: State whether you have tape or disk.
This compilation of 50 ot the best PD games includes arcade games, sports sims. Available on tape or disk, please state what you have when ordering. A PC w Magazine. Our boss, Greg Ingham, reveals everything well, a few things, anyway about being a magazine publisher How to introduce our boss, the Group Publisher of Future's Leisure Division which does all the world's spiff I est computer games mags?
Do we go for the "smarm, smarm, where's the raise? Or the jokey, "So, what does the lazy old so-and-so do all dayr approach? Maybe we'd better just tell you that he has overall responsibility tor 1 3 computery-type mags, including CF, Sega Power and GamesMaster, and leave the rest up to you How did you become a Publisher? I would advise anyone wishing to be a publisher to go the same route What does a Publisher actually do? Ravenswood A Publisher is a demi-God, a njler ol his domain, a Okay, a Publisher is someone with overall responsibility tor every aspect of a magazine - wnting, design, advertising, promotion, direction, financial well- being, etc, etc.
Of course, the actual work is done by experts so that Publishers can spend the day shuffling paper, having meetings and 'doing' lunch with assorted would-be senior boos who are all likewise In search of a function. Herefordshire We launched CF because we believed that there were legions of 64 owners who weren't being well served by existing titles.
And we were right, because they all flocked to buy CF. How long will CFgo on for? Daniel McKellern, Kirkcaldy It will go on for years yet! We haven't even begun to think ot the possibility of its not being around. As long as there are enough readers sufficiently pleased with CF and their 64 to buy it each month, then we'll continue to publish. What makes a good computer magazine? Are all your writers gaming experts? Adrian Flllington, Chester Yes. J Isn't it supposed to be a free gift?
Amanda Beeling, Lym, Cheshire Two things: As for the price, remember that the newsagents and distri- bution trade all have to take their proportion Duplicating some 70, extra tapes is an expensive business but we believe that most readers regard the double tapes as superb value for money. II you don't, then please please write in to Trent to tell him. CF said that the C64 was going to be one of the machines in the games championship at the FES but it wasn't? Dave Millward, Woking At the planning stage, it did look as though it would be possible for the 64 to be featured in the championships.
But sadly once we got motoring we found that Virgin Retail who provided the venues for the heats and Yorkshire TV who filmed it all for Bad Influence and the various software houses all preferred to concentrate on Sega. Nintendo and Amiga systems. It's all a bit bonkers, but there we have it. Ah, that's really unfair! How could I possibly upset all the others by letting everyone know that I think Roger Frames is ace? What's your favourite computer? My favourite computer has to be my self -assem- bled Acorn Atom from all those years ago, Many's the hour I whiled away programming, er.
I'm making this bit up. Banged to rights, guvnor Who's your favourite band? Which record kept Ultravox's Vienna otl the number one spot? Shaddap Your Face and I don't believe this is a genuine question. Jot down your ques- tion on a postcard or sealed-down envelope and send it to us at the W q -j Face to Face address above.
NEW 3 75 " DmHn.. Back to the Future 2. Wintofcamp Cass New Phoj. We reveal the results of our Design A Game Competition - you won't believe the winning entry. The skill comes in when you're o or tennis sim. The slightest waggle of the joystick when you strike the ball can mean the differ- ence between defeat and deuce. The sprites are extremely mobile and speedy, making for very quick matches. The whole thing is simply, but well, drawn. Temperamental players throw their rac- quets down in anger at the umpire's call.
Although it's 'only' a tennis game, for a E3. Int 10 as it's become known 3 to its friends is a definite barg. Long term, if you're not that big a tennis fan then tedium might well set in. H, however, you're the next Jeremy Bates, it might keep you in prac- jtice till the rainy season begins again. Severely lacking in options or variety is another. It has to be admit- ted, Wnchfinder General Matthew Hopkins gave witches more choice than you get here. The only pre-match decisions you have to make are what colour shirts you want the learns to have and whether you want to start playing up or down the pitch.
There are no league or champi- onship competitions, no training or managementy bits and no tactical decisions, such as what for- mation you want your team to play in. But despite the absence of bells and whistles apart from the referee's Graeme Souness International Soccer is actually not all that bad.
The matches are played using the standard computer soccer routine. You only control one player at any time, and he's chosen by the computer.
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While this isn't a problem particular to this game, it does seem more of a nuisance than usual, as the player who was running towards the balls sud- denly veers away and the new one doesn't seem to be anywhere on screen. On the other hand the players are well- drawn, the action is fast and furious and it's dead easy to get into.
Playing against the com- puter is a bit of a chore, but in two-player mode the game really takes off. As a computer kick- around that you can load and play with the minimum of fuss it does have a cer- tain no-nonsense appeal. Kick Oft 2 has nothing to worry about, but at C3. Choice of one- and two-player modes. Often you don't control the player who's near- est the ball.
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A single man with three bads? You can jump between worlds as many times aa you like. The hero, Harris, an ex -cop turned cartoon artist. Well, apart from the language uses when he lets a goal in during five-aside it seems not. You see, Cool World is a game about Urn, let Clur try to Cool World is one game in which it actually helps to be a sucker. A Single fella with owning a washing machine 7 Nol very realistic.
We reckon that this It a globe - what It's doing on the toilet we'll not entirely sure. First Jump and then ab Down on your joystick to leap through to the land of toons. If you've seen the ads for the game featuring the rather curvacious figure of Holli Would, and read the blurbs about her sex-starved antics you might have been lead to expect an X certificate game along the nes of Cover Girl Poker But there's no rea- son lor Ms M Whitehouse to get upset i about the game - it's a simple plat- form shoot-envup with minimal plot and some nice not risqud at all, really intro screens.
Holli hardty seems to feature in the game at alt Harris, the hero of the game, who's an ex-cop turned artist, is, thankfully, fully clothed. The most risquG the game gets is featuring a toilet and a washing machine.
Whoever heard of a single man having his own washing machine, anyway? The game is based on a film called would you believe? Haven't heard ot it? That's not surprising since it did so badly in the US it's being released straight to video over here- So what's it all about Altie? Erm, tricky one that But here goes. Holli's a doodle a cartoon drawing by Harris who lives in the two dimensional Cool World populated by folk known as doodles.
She has a burning desire to be 'close to' a fiesh and blood man from the real world instead of very flat men she normally has to put up with you can't 'cock a doodle', as she puts it so euphemistical ly. You play Harris who's found a vortex between his world and Holli's in his living room.
He knows nothing about Holli's plan, only that a load of doodles are nipping through the vortex and nicking his video, telly, hi-fi stacking system and fondue set, and he's not happy about It. How cute can you get? Then think yourself lucky and avoid al all costs. Yoi real world completely and rule it with their strong, but inky, fists - but or the moment a few consumer items will do. The aim of this shiny piatformer is to maintain the balance between the cool and real worlds. It too many toons are over here, over paid and underworked or if they drag too much real world stuff into their world then the imbalance Is too great and they've won.
Don't fret, even TMB took a while to figure this plot out. You're armed with a fountain pen that both shoots and sucks. Shoot an ink pellet to turn a doodle into a black ink blob, then hold down fire to suck the blob into the ink reser- voir in your pen. It's impossible to destroy every toon this way. The more you bust and suck, the more doodles appear. But It's not all in vain — each doodle you suck into oblivion means a few seconds taken off the time that you have to maintain the balance, making life a bit easier.
Plus any blobs you don't suck turn into a nasty firing thingies. Each level takes place in a different build- ing. The game starts out in Harris' house. There are a couple of vortexes open between the two worlds and loads of evil little doodles Maybo it s Just me, but his particular 1 ks a lot njr Roge are coming through. Harris can use these vortexes too - he can jump between the worlds and do bat- tle with the doodles on both fronts.
So if the doodles do grab Harris' vid, all is not lost because you can send him into Cool World to find it and send it back to the real world, so helping to keep the balance. Harris is excellently animated: The toons look fab - there's even a Roger Frames look-alike wandering around, along with plenty of other weird, ugly things. The levels are rea- sonably large, usually around three or four times the size of the screen.
The 'maintaining a balance' theme is novel but lacks a. And with all the levels looking pretty similar in terms of the baddies you meet as well as the backgrounds - there is little incentive to progress through the levels. Having said that, the great thing about Cool World is that things can end up getting very manic. There are doodles coming at you from all sides touch one and you lose a third of your energy , there's a danger signal flash- ing at you and lots of very odd sound effects, which all add to the growing confusion. It's great fun to play at first, but long-term appeal is limited by the saminess factor.
Compare it with, if you like, having as many peanut butter and Jam sandwhiches as you could ever eat. Soon enough, you'd end up teeling sick at the mere sight of the nut and strawberry treats. Speak for yourself - Dave. One thing that has been bugging me is the absence of any human life in the real, or cool, worlds apart from our hero.
Maybe if you had to rescue someone at the end of the The local comic shop. There's just time to stock up on the latest copies of Akirm. One has to have a point in lite, you know, hey this is getting deep - Ed ; just living to survive doesn't make for an exciting existence or enthralling gameplay. At the heart of Cool World is a great Idea and executed a little better the game would have been great. As it stands this licence is fun for a while, but. Smooth scrolling feet action. A very weird wea There's not much I term appeal. Don't worry, though, fans.
Some things never change, like the plot. Let's have a look at Dizzy's track record and see what kind of a contribution he has made to computing history: Otherwise pretty similar to the last adventure. The adven- turse are almost impossible to led apart with a control system that's more irritating than wearing a sandpaper-lined pair of jogging pant while the arcade games are just inferior rehashes of other arcade games. Confusing and very hard. Strangely many people s favourite Dizzy, Sales unknown. Sales unknown but doing well. It's too easy to say that all Dizzy games are all the same: Players can trust Dizzy games to be of a cer- tain standard and rely on a games-playing technique they've built up Irom playing previous Dizzy games.
Dizzy is still a hugely popular character and obviously you can't expect every- one to like him. But for those who do. Sales around the 10, mark. The control system has finally improved, but the puzzles are as predictable as ever Sales unknown. Call the first witness.
The defence's first witness the stand is Philip Oliver, of the Oliver Tw Philip and his brother Andrew are the brains behind the Dizzy phenomenon Philip: Then moved on to the Nintendo and spent 18 months coding the Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy. Paul Ransom of Big Red Software then took over lhe coding chores, but we still had a word in the design. T wanted to do something more original.
Both ol us were really keen on cartoons - Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, that sort of thing - and we wanted to create a cartoon you could control, which was a tall order on the Spectrum. The first game had "The ultimate cartoon adven- ture" on the box - we insisted on that. Why has Dizzy been so endunng? The games are designed so that you can concentrate on and get involved with the character and the plot They are also social games.
Kids talk about them in the playground, and even their families get involved. People criticise them for all being the same, but what we have is a format that is a way of putting forward the plots.
That's why we've kept the same system in the adventures. It's like a knowing a language so that you can get straight in and read a book. What was the reason for the arcade adventures, then? Once Dizzy started to get estab- lished as a character we didn't want people John Duffy, Peterborough, 'I don't want to see any more Dizzy mes because they're all the same. Why the boxing gloves? To make him easier to draw! On the 8-blls he's had his days, and there's very little chance that the Codies will come up with anything startllngly new or original for the character. Does Dtzzy have a luture?
He's going to be bigger than ever. We are taking him on to the consoles. We reckon that we can make Dizzy bigger lhan Mario or Sonic because he has one great advantage - he is not restricted to one format - he ll be on both Sega and Nintendo. Does the prosecution wish lo cross examine?
It's a leading question Judge: The answer should be interesting. We knew we wanted a big face, and he needed to move around so we added legs and arms. Before we knew it he looked like an egg. But isn't it true that even Paul Ransom. Sorry, Trent, Clur and Dave, looks like he's escaped the noose and you'll have to carry on reviewing him. Tell us Mr Olivet, are the arcade games as successful? Image-wise the arcade games don't tend to catch on quile as much. They sell well, but people don I talk about them as much.
Hmm, I think the Codies' own sales ligures dispule the fact that they sell as well. You produced a lot of games in a very short space. Don't you think this alfected their quality? The move on to the consoles means we have more time to make expansive games. We will be reducing the num- ber ol titles but each will be far superior. But will any of this filter down to the S bits? Well Crystal Kingdom Dizzy was larger than the usual games. Over 10 years experience with Commodore computers. Up to 20 qualified technician engineers at your disposal. Some computers can be repaired within 24 hours.
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Send an SAE or full price list. C I There have been many great and famous Jasons in history. But could any of them answer questions about C64 drives or creating bouncing text? Please can you tell us how to freeze games as I have tried pressing all the keys and buttons I can find on the 64 but nothing happens. A 'freeze' is Invoked by a cartridge which plugs into the expan- sion port located on the back of the computer at the function key end.
But not just any old cartridge your Dad s old Jethro Tull eight-track just ain't gonna work ; you need to get hold of one that allows POKEs to be entered and the game to be restarted. And I bet you want me to recommend one now. Okay, then, the Action Replay car- tridge from Date! Electronics would be my choice in fad, it is my choice - there's one stuck almost permanently in the back of my You can contact the company on IT You think you've got freez- ing problems? They're nothing compared to what jp Batman had to put up with.
It normally works fine so why it won't work with this program? Paul Thomson, England I guess. The fact that the record button would not go down has nothing to do with Saracen Paint, the datassette or even the computer - it's all to do with the cassette. On the top edge are two tabs; one on the left and one on the right. If you push down hard on these with something like a screwdriver or the end of a pen, the tabs are broken off leaving a small hole. If there are no tabs present on the cas- sette, the tape deck will detect this and will not allow the record button to be pressed down.
The effect also works with audio tapes In ordi- nary stereo systems. To record on to a tape without tabs, simply stick some adhesive tape over the holes. Exactly the same rules apply with audio cas- settes In normal tape players though we're not sure whether eight-track cartridges used this system. I now want to buy a disk drive but which one is the best and most reasonably-priced to buy?
The only drive that I've seen advertised is the If they are, where from, at what price, and are they any better in terms of offering a larger capacity than the ? One last thing - is there anywhere I can write to get personal written replies? Your magazine says not to expect them so who can we write to with queries? Any rea- sonable computer shop should be able to order you one.
The drive is the Commodore s ver- sion of the and contains a few addi- tional features, namely that it can format and access both sides of a 5. This doesn't really increase the capacity because the can use both sides of a disk; you just have to cut a notch In the left-hand side to match the one in the right-hand side and turn the disk over when you put ft in the drive.
The is rather different. It s fully Commodore compatible but takes 3. The storage capacity is nearly five times that of the but there is very little, if any, software available for it You won't be able to buy the drive new in Britain, either - you'd have to shop around in America or Germany where they are quite popular. On your last point, It's very difficult for any magazine to guarantee written replies. How can I stop this? Is there any way to print out the whole of the screen as with Action Replay's printer dump option?
Inside Info had a letter titled 'Speak Forth'. I have two games that talk. Either simply put In a recurring loop at the end of the program or an option to restart it. The first is the easiest. Suppose you run the following program: A slicker approach would be something like the following: This one could run and run! However, if a pro- gram actually loads another program, the messages will not appear. This type of speech requires a piece of hardware to do the initial recording of the voice but nothing special to play it back.
The software-only method relies on attempting to recreate voices that are not real. First, a motherboard does nothing more than save wear and tear on your cartridge slot - it does not allow more than one cartridge to be on at the same time. Therefore you have either the games cartridge active OR the Action Replay cartridge. Secondly, cartridge games work differently from games that load Into memory. They sometimes have their own memory, for example, and even it you could get the game and the AR cartridge to work simultaneously, Action Replay wouldn't know how to cope.
Some programs detect this and refuse to load when Action Replay is active in case you're planning anything naughty.
The majority of games should load if you have Action Replay plugged in but not active. Is there any chance you could send me one as well? The right one is POKE , The reasons for this are quite complicated, but It is Just convention to add on that extra one - a convention I have personally never seen the point of. Tell you what - if you write it out first see if someone else can work out what you're on about. If not, print it out. I don't want to sound mean, but if I can't read what you've written, I can't answer your queries, and your letter will end up filed ie, in the bin.
If it is, does it contain the same information as the disk version, and how much would it set me back? I You use the program below, that's how. You'll only be able to get the most out of it if you can program in machine language. If not, just change the message at the start and accept that it works!
Dear Inside Info, I saw a long time ago a program that allowed how to create the same sort of effect? Sure I know how to achieve that effect. How can I replace your message with my own? I first removed tines and replaced them with my own. Please help as I'm tearing my hair out! After that you can just use the normal PRINT command to put up a message on the screen; you don't need to use the method that I employed.
Alternatively, make sure that all the numbers in your data lines corre- spond to screen codes for certain characters, and not ASCII codes. As a base, replace them all with ; you should get lots of A s appearing. Now change them to s and you'll get the effect occurring behind" these A s.
You "Look, I don't want to complain, but there must be an easier way to swat a fly. That will set you back quite a bit and I would telephone them on TT first to ask if their PD collection contains a Basic compiler. I have printed the necessary info below: In other words, it should read: You can do this copying by entering the following line which will take quite a while to execute: It'll be very confusing unless you understand the principles involved which, to be honest, are a bit too complex to explain here I would probably need about half the magazine to do the sub- ject justice and I don't think Trent would agree to that.
Then all you do is enter the command poke l, This effectively brings the hid- den" RAM into view - normally the computer would crash at this point but what you have In the area is an image of the ROM so ft will not crash. You can use a machine code monitor to then alter whatever you like, mak- ing sure you keep track of conventions such as the fact that the last character of each command has added to its stored value.
That'll get you started at least. You should just delete lines 3 and 5 as they have no bearing on the program. You can take away 8 from it as well if you want to change the styles and colours of the writing. Keep up the good work and please add more pages of your own stuff and not just other people's. Lines that have no bearing on the pro- gram are often there for clarity or to produce a certain effect and I will agree that the DATA change won't alter the text style; I didn't say that it would. It changes where the effect appears verti- cally on the screen. If you've seen a game that scrolls a full screen vertically on to the display, or a demo that has a large logo bouncing around all over the place, it is quite proba- ble that the programmers have used FLD.
The text bouncing is another example. It is rather complicated to explain here, I'm afraid; an article all of its own would be required to do the technique justice are you on the cadge again? Basically it involves tricking the computer into missing out lines on the screen so that you can make it start 'plotting' the screen from about half way down your television display or wherever you want.
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