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The fs is that alesis als cracked up to bo, Cue revoutonse the reabershp between the arcades an the home comput ndusty. Sotware houses i be ble to supply tar cunt JOEL, wro by adsing a shod culne n make i compaa wth te sys Whats more. EML intend te tease solware of al nds on the macines, incng simula ‘os. WoVe coveoped a ye te Nelson says, ha lows ‘he payor to buy time ona sirulston program inne sare way bat you buy les ‘arcade gama Dont rk aed Ay could be ne assago sor, wih pub-gers seling out 209, fora quick ight rund he Bay wih Fig Sim 2 oat few weeks, fh the meantime, theres no cous that sien conver sion to arcade format coud have a huge impact on the sotware tus tess. Well caianly doit again it veske out’ said US Golf's Richard Taal @ CHEAPER The dstrbuors ol arcade ractinas ao ry kon at Nelson, and our machines re cheaper ~ between £1200 and £1800 200 pared io around £1900 for the Arada systems, Wihars more, we can change he game on a ‘machine 20 seconds and dsiibae te sot ware on ots vry ei, “That's alo a ge oer seas maha, ‘ACE wil be plays: Ing te new sytem in me Fest pont of uncertainty - Mr Hower sys games machines, an not games compters "We have no mention he cont od, ‘ot lessening our arp on the games market and have every ten fon of keeping cur leadership cf Second poi dows take an (of over 10 age at impy tun ig out OPC machines rat gong > keep Anita onthe cuting ede of the computor marke. $0 wha! wi they come up wit? "They havent oot 2 rack read for procing arting nem pons 0 Anton Howson, 0 the on tang can thnk of isan ST or Amiga ona’ Which is ist what at | oF oer prope have sat tho gamos | Cormacore woud undoutealy ‘mstads prt are cute based largely on he sale of re smal bs: ess computers; the second is te legac cleat of geting hots of new (OPC machines. ‘ve heard. he's Siopped marutecuting CPCS ato. (oie: romarkag. Rakbese Pete Norland, nonadays whenever we ry to ta machinn we have to ste for ‘seond an Wr Supa has no cout on tat las pont. Wis rt tue he fod ACE ‘Were making more CPC's than ever afer But what about tre comme iment fo the srientainment indusy? Nick Hower, speaking for Amstrad pains out that he moment. the Bulk of eu turer isi the comeuie busiess, an thee isa vibrant sex News™ teke Amstrad to cout the company attanptd to produce an Ariga com ptercioe, tu wha about a honsed “Amgabased consle, whch woudt cen 9 heavy wih Commocore’s mate? That woud be a deren popo- slion’ sid ou Commodore sur, is cenany an ttn ee, He carany i, Amstad sel the hardware, Coneocore scoop the oy aes, ard the sofware hous sel rrore gares, Whatver the answer, there's someining in the ai, Mean Wwe, reno has i that Aneto rave ooeced' cal he new nacnne a. Siar "Tear comment on that We never ak sbout now products coun tered Mr Hower @ ‘Abarced Computer Eferanment 7OF id Mh bdo com Simulations, who pro (400d up mart, hitch con cf fe games such as The Uninvited and Deja V for Nindscape in the Sates, have sot up a programming team in ho UK and signed up wih Telecoms ‘Sk tos aro in the pipeline, Inctusing Dea Vu 2a a ‘sporty ‘animated sheoten-dead gare set inte Wid West ‘uprealy,icom donot plan to conooniate 09 ican drven avn tures in future, but mean to move imo the areado game avera. Wel be produc fast acton graphical arcade games forthe ST Mac, and ‘Amiga Commosore 64 versions wil also appoar, though wo arent ute at this stage whether wat do them oursaives oe contact them ut said Jake Glover, lear UK's rranagirg dct. Apparecty Icom are planning to move all heir games progra tring work to the UK, pomhape because costs here ave loner earwtil he American dsion is te move out of the ertainmont axes and begin programming bus hiss Sohware. Looks ike the Amer ‘ean ate wahog up to the fat that 8 Advanced Comput: Entertaiment ELITE GO UDGET Be prepared for dassc Ele ites inducing silly be launching « new label At wit bo Commando. Aiwol and Frank Bruna’s Boxing revealed by May ox June to urbe nto your lap fora bargain £1.99 the At tho samo tme, the company are pushing next low months. Tre company are moving into hard ete the growing T6-t markt and theye the budget arona, other wit anew label or partculary proud of ST Buggy Boy end Spaco trough a thd pay, and wil be producing Harrer. With any luck the budget move wil mary of hor ld isa the rw on prices. enaale the company to s220p some reverve "We're st examining al the opions aval- that can be ploughed into develpment of more able fo us sald compary budget epokesman expensive 16-5 releases. @ Pete Kuy, but we do al irhouse wel cot canmins-yoon scr 88 Europe, andthe UK in pateua, woate the actions nowadays. @ ‘adore fale em gre eo: fevtonr ao cone econ ed (rer toma. Pa aL aa cS CRAM YOUR FINGER ON THE DIAL Myou've got a medom andina | You can meet siangers for an | BTS software fo go wihil Tetemap and | online chinwag ov confor wih | or ving stuctue, and cous Compunet nave bath got news for | kiends. 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Ore o! te things Terman | bytos comes tom Steve God pend online, at baween 25p ard | hope to find outs whether people | best kromn fr his pat inthe hack ‘pe minute. with te east added | are pronaed to pay 25p a minute | ing ol Prince Philip's Tiecom Gold system i used. Depending onthe complexity ‘ofthe scene, rendering can take fom c few minutes to several hows. Each taro © deter ccompresiod £0 one dik can hold quite a large cnimetion, The two mater complains about rendering are that frames cannot be saved os IF fies for use in other programs nd, conversely. pictures trom other paint programs cannot be used os backgrounds ANIMATOR APPRENTICE Hashnigue 165 alle to the Amiga Cae, Scotans By for tho quits! of the cunent crop of packages Is author, Martin Heath, describes ites an ‘ergamic cnimater, becouse its espe cally good with organic objects such as ‘humans, plants and arumals rather than the ‘usual smooth globes. glossy surtaces ond (geometic shopes. A fcvour of the method Used can only be gained by trying t out ~ dificult hecause the matn program is expen- | sive and the manual is rather disorganised | abd dict to use. Thor a simple (and ‘te te og he AE png ar egy ‘epee noetow cheapan vrsen ~ Anat nkr (52 “he lochniquetaed soos maping ‘he font ee op aed boom views each cpt ao tnt drown using a giao: raving package even HAM Gea. At bj con be es Soper, flower ry thing ~ too compler ibn cb. more Imoble heten down no pars bach Sa | foc pate sun ‘eaten ark et = s | faceted cots tie sooaty tnoetyng or | face. The resulting object can be chore- | ogsoted win oe herp mach fhe same wey thal oat packages move | objects using a hetrarchy of names. Tio Vidcsoape Anamatr Apprentice cise wie indi module programs ~ & fe poem stared fr ear age the animate. Hoe, ho shem scons f Wort ‘eeonahly wal. hough fs net @ Yry ectegirtsoulon bo te problem Oppo ers Adeced Compe Eneraeret 23,GRAPHICS Tap esa ected in the Sculpt section then the vanious parts are put together as Sick figure chosac fers. The local and global movernents each chenacter oon undertake cre then set using Moen and Direcior, the action previewed ‘usng Rehearsal then tho full nimtion ren ‘dered with Record The result aan be viewed with the Display program. Backgrounds can ‘only be included ung & genlock ‘Overall. the system sooms 19 wotk rec senaily well. though to get good, consistent results wil take practice For flowing anima tion of compiox, textural forms in 30 this probably the only package ofits type m the Wotid, Developer! to better use the Amigats system of gadgets and windows, it would be superb. At presents ather quiey VIDEOSCAPE 3D : aesis £119 valle Fon reson Sota Some of the fst and best 3D animation domes for the Amiga wore produced by ‘Allen Hastings using software be hat i ton, now avallbe cs VidecSoape SD ~ cur rently amongst the best known package for the very recuons that Foums in Fight snot. te ‘geod presentation and packaging. While its Cartsnly tue that Videosoape con produce fexcolent crumations, fs not an ecsy over sate package. User tendly it is not Designed in a redular system supposedly fea to add more facitios to later, the sys tem seems contusingly ragged and Bit. sspecicily inthe intial, object editing phose ‘Object ato creened in one of thee programs that hark back fo MS DOS ot BEC packages free years ago. simple ists ot choices with litle or no feedback. For any compli. ‘Object the only motiod avaiable s by cre ‘ting in the conect order (Ciocewse from 24. pbrnced Comper Ertainnent he visble side). an imposible task forthe ‘Motion cn transformation of objects are beth posible using key‘rames and mo tweening, but once again the mation fHes ‘mst be axel tox fles very laborious. Fore- ground and backiound pictures can be added providing they are drawn using Vidooscanes stondari 32colour palete Frames ae saved in Dela compressed form, Overall. Videoscape SD is intended tor the advanced user, in whose hands many ‘ine amumattons have been produced. To ga the best cut of tho package faites many xs of hand work and tecbous ist wating ‘epectally in the object editing department The memati ecsonabie but It hos an uphill struggle ageanet the complenity of tho sot CYBER STUDIO Antic £8996 -valale ron Elec Dio.ton So far, al the packoges mentioned cre for the Amiga. Betior than any of them, certain iy im acme of ike, Cyber Stuco for tho ST Cngnally developed asc CAD package. the object eater CADID 20 i an excellent example of the balanced uso of windows, ‘eons ond menus. The working interae shown i the Uustration provides on easjto- understand diawing desk. which docs fend to waste c Bit of spane that could better be nw, ot. wad on o lauger dhawing crea. The picture of Scupeanimars working creas shows that nly very stmall gadgets cround the win dows are needed. Nevertheless CADSD ‘yry easy to work with The’ excellent manual takes the wset in foxy stages ttnough each part of the pro gram. Mico Magic, Aegis and Hashnique ‘could all ocmn something by reading this ‘guide, namely that mast people coud pro- ‘Guce good animations on their home com: puter if they hod a decent futoca!, even when the software not very sor inendly ‘Animation ccm be produced drectiy ‘torn within CADSD by saving each frame fs 8 tendered, making changes on the hoot Smooth matin is aided by the use ot ‘muluplo exposure sequence files that dis play a postions of an object in motion as froven, Frames cre saved os Delia com: pressed thes ‘More complex arumations need the (Cybermate onimation ecting language that comes with the package This provides & wide range of facies cluding Koy irae Gnd inbetweening, special effects, ap aie solves and even sound effects, Unfortunately. those facilities axe not readily available ‘wihout leaming the Cybernaro language. which makes sophisticated effects dificult 1 ‘access, Nevertheless, Cyber Studio is one of the bes animation packages on ony machine 1 has been wel. developed and ‘modules for mere sophisticated effects cre on ther way. branes cf ready mace pars such cs spooeships, bots and human skeletons fare dso availabe. Highly recommended: ‘Bu noto ther treques cn ST 1040, Byte By Byte 110 (enue Sul 0,8) tn Arga Cate, Scotland ‘The best package was the last to be received. nd fortunctly tho lst tO be test fed Cnoe anyone with any interest in anima: ton stan to use SculpeAnlmete 3D they wl ever want to use any other package I is crite simply the best plsoe of sotwore 20 for wwntien for the Amiga - very powerful and {yt ample to uso, producing supetb images. ‘The abject editor has jus throe windows showing font, sde and plan views. Around each are gadgets, simple developments of the sencard Amiga window tool, allowing and mavement of Ob, ‘phs panning and soaming of the ew Pulldown monus provide ail ofr octites ‘Motion ecting fakes plaoe in the same windows as object exiting, by means of moon paths, splines (emecth curve devices). key rames cand objeci/motion name hierar ‘Any rezoltion umber of coious ccon be used in rendering, whi ‘can also be at tour loves of occur cy: wietame, painting (equivaient 10 VideoSoape), snapshot (simple ray-trace) of pooio dull ay-rooe) Foreground and background pic furer can be axed. All images (ames) can be saved separately a3 1FF nies ond also deta compresed 30 oto be played baci rom RAM, ‘SoulpeAnlmaties only rel faut is that ‘here & no Undo, This Goes nct seem to Fre sent much ofa problem @ g ‘SCULPTANIMATE 30 salad tor N.B. A special thanks to Martin Lowe of the Amiga Cenire, Scotland (091 $87 4242) for pro- viding software and invaluable technical aavie. peices eh x93 aonPIRRON ers allFARCADES WELCOME BACK, PAC? Some very old game styles are back in vogue in the arcades. Do the manufacturers assume we just can't get enough of the stuff? Or are they running out of ideas? i ET ROE PACMANIA Namco Price 30p M the names Giydo. Inky, Pinky, Funky, Bink anc Sue make you breakout in cold sweat and start gibbedng about power pills Pocnan ‘ether loved the gomes or hated them, and if you loved them, well you were hooked for ‘Seven yours afer his fist appearence bes bock. Now he's in stunning 3D and has leamt how fo jump. The pot hasnt changed ‘ono fot in all this time so you've stil got to clocr each screen by eating al the power pls. You get a chotoe of start screen tot each (garne, however, and the scenery changes ‘Gocorangty. The jump facdty means that 1H youve been wating for Pacman to become popular ence again ¢ you probably “ang ay bens est eu a ‘26 Aévanced Computer EnertainmentExzZisus Taito Price 20p urcus re button action is your oly hope of survival in ths hodaontally scroling shoot smup. The game comes completo with a ined and fesled croade formula: fy your rman though wave after wave of atlacking ler, pick up the benotts tor more frepow rand detect the endoevel quar Youve got at standard ‘font tring gun lus bots ok 3 vod wth the come in jlly handy fr but annoying. ground based symbols that appear 1 conceat extra Bonet colet the resulting let ding to which moo your gun wt Gives the player super fos quick the. Holding down the fue Dutlon and the button thats jocstod nest to it on the exbinet rests in Cantatore? var pitorm shoes then Racmania is the answor 10 you! ayers For anyono eb, owever, the inten Ukoty tobe due to nostake than bh og Fray yore gto ae quick fre mode being activated = very handy 4 youre ina ight spo On the earlier levels ct lest. theres n scenery 10 Gash in\o 50 your only wory = destroying the cllons. Lar, Salamander type tentacles that cannot be destoyed | arpeer fom loos and calings and must be dodged. The endotlevel guarcians can bo tough to dofoat, as you nave to hit thom in youll have your reactions a her mish mash of features rom many other popular cicade games. with no exceptional or oulstanding features of is own. Its sill playable and acacive with (good graphics and sound, but i decent do anything betier than, say, Type or Sala: mander ARCADES™ BLASTEROIDS Anata faut ganar ase fe ‘ewads Te sven gree payer | ‘he erarce o awe between vee aot ‘hetouch of bt. 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Tal should eat some ively cussions inthe arcades as 0 who conta wat Walch cut fra tl rvew of ro game ina uure ‘seve of ACE. | cranes Corte Enetinnent 27iis Ss Er KoRoe es inte ironman en em ee eae Relate ge AULSNGNI SAINYS OFCIA FHL JO SLNUYI: P66'GL 24S 661266" avUsW * Te al a eM eer {} Donte Cy Tae ee -‘Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd., pha House, 10 Carver Sueet, Shetild SI 4FS. Tel: 0742 753423SPECIAL™ What have the highest ACE-rated game ever, Atari's supercharged ABAQ and a Spectrum-compatible micro for the Third World all got in common? Cambridge, that's what! The city of dreaming spires and glittering prizes is home for some of Britain's top programmers and hardware designers - not to mention several major micro industry landmarks SILICON SPIRES ss Qh Acomis BBC Miers, nid East Anglia was (eshape the future ofthe mio business. AMICRO FOR THE THIRD wortD there the sitarty ends Mies Gordon Technology machine - tent fly named SAM — may be o lt of things, Bitsbtectihoar it eant Mgt aront oxacty «x household nem Ditin Spectrum hobbyist cacies they've Dult Aqvanad Compute Enartinnent 3.1‘Scar ess Hg Pc se] Eigeon te pened nce ace. Sl a gee pa fora ‘Soot tc Orig aston cacy! da Ke Cal tsCambridge“Airport,: MBRIDGE Gog Magog Hills a Haatiiee’ 9 A seling it here inthe UK. But wont the lei boom seriously damage SAMS chances in Bain? People dont need that kin of power ‘Alan Mies orgues. 1 ike using @ racing cat to dive round to the shops. What people need in schools is @ cheap mio you con netwolk easly: that way you can buy & ‘whole class of them and conncet ther up together’ ‘Thare are other posses for @ cheap, networaiblo micro of course. Mult playar (games would be particully suikable: the Spectrum compatiblty means that games programms know ‘pow to make the 5 2ARC Thr at cpg conta on cat meds usd Be um king wry | mpm et machine pertom, and with @ £160 price tag you could actually atiord to get a few of them within ccablelength cteach other The SAMS chances as a mainsteam mache aront great, must bo said. Pico ties to one side there’ a heavy trend towards 1éb! machines and not without reason. While the 280 might be perfectly adequate for productivity - the Amstrad POW cnd the 288 cre fine examples heee = really cont cope with the sort of demands modern computer entertanment mates. A ‘year or maybe 16 months ago t might have ‘been a very diferent story, But 18 months {avery long time in the home computer Bus GAMES INTO THE NINETIES Athough Sincicr Research more or less cre dated the UK games market with the Spec trum, Cambridge programmers have always loaned ‘owands the citys other micro giant Aco, The BEC Micros hobbyist. cleric leanings made it the fist choice of mas! sti dont hackers, but this tended to shut thom fut of mainsneam games wnting as the Spectrum gained the upper hand. Some ‘have comied on wating 1" the Beeb howov ff, and when the resulting games have ‘made it acs to other formats ifs usually SPECIAL made quite « spicsh. Ente wos orginally & | BEC game. conceived and writen in Com ridge sales on Sit formats have been spectacular, eaming cuthors David Braben nid len Boll @ small fortune. Now thore’ & PFC version inthe shops, with ST-and Amiga: versions waiting in the wings. Thrust was aio @ Combrage game, os you might have quesed fiom its strong ysis favour. Author Jeremy Smith cheso ‘ho ZX SHIFT contol koys to mach thoro on Acornsofts version of Asteroids. but the same ‘anengement crops up in the very Trustsh (iis fevicwed cn page 44) so the games leenly done seme iniuencing itselt With the amval of the Archimedes, ‘Acorn fans ce coming ito their own agazn The Archie isit a major games miao and probably never will be, but the power and. ‘momory seo of the 32.t powemnous moan that games developed on it will typically ‘convert well 1 the ‘Amiga. Take Zatch Yor instance, tho highost ACE atod ‘game ever: so far only avatiable for the Archimedes, fl scon be avaiable for the ST ‘and Amiga. Author David Baben's doing tho ‘conversion work humsell, and already as the ST hoverplane fying, The tiished Garne wont be qulle as satisying to look at is ‘Archie cousin ~ no surprises there ~ but the latest ST version runs af @ healthy 1S trams per second or 52. By 68000 stands, this ene sngs and dancus, Visually, the main les compared to the Archie stems ftom the STs smaller palette and fowor onscrven colous. The Archies ‘Bhenomenal 60K display ates 266 colours fn screen at once out of 40%, allowing Zanch to we depth-cuelng - a system where the landscape gets darkot ai recedes into the distance. Depth cveing makes the game intensely reais, ut with only 16 colours out of 512 the ST jst isnt upto the task Netter, surprisingly enough, esanced Compe Externe 33 meSPECIAL (heb ap be won ‘Amiga. Though the proctical maximum (32 olous out ot 4096) might sound tke hough Amiga Zarch wil actually only use 46 colours on scieen ct once — and wil sil run sighity slower than the ST version. Te bitter amply isnt suited to the set of tasks the game invoives, i! seems, so the 68000 hasto cary the whole burden. ts the sot.up fime’ Braben explains. The bitters very fast ‘ence its working on « problem, but i takes 0 0ng to et the thing going that over! its Sower than the 68000. tn other words, the ‘Ronis no beter than am ST or this kind of ‘hing. in fs ifs sighlly worse anysning, the S75 68000 being 2 sighily faster animal Surprze of the montt? That bave to be the possibilty (and thats oll # at the moment) of Spectrum Zarch. Granted the ‘ery idea sounds ridiculous, but fiom afew bockotanenvelope timings it looks ike it auld just work. As for the colour hmitons, ‘You cam work those out fr yourselved + (Other things solid and 3D are also font fn Cambridge, in the form of Conquer: YWiton by Jonathan Geffiths but using 2ancts 3D asplay routines, this tank wate file mace an appocrance in ACE issue 4s Game o the Future special. Ite about to Docome a game ofthe present now. thanks to the Acom onontatod Super Softwexe, 90 youll soon be able to drive out in your 1734/76 to take on those enemy Panzer Is ‘There ore c good range o other tanks to try. and you can choose just how strotegic the james goung to get — ossuming you can Sehually cfflord the hendwene to run it on. of ck Lng, et Perio Sony, shows an BLD ager at ate les pcm 34 Advanxd Computer Eterna, ‘hematite ABA ert: rt Yee nte gd ear crt em mena, mo Taro At present Conqueror has 10 Be 00 of the mest exclusive games commercially ‘averlable: i only out on the Archimedes cand not my old Archie otter. Youll peed S310 oF 410 series mactine to run it on. 5 ‘buying game and micro together would sot you book rather mare than £900. ST cnc. ‘hmiga owners wil havo 10 walt « few ‘months for thet versons ofthe fankbusting ‘pe — latest word that theyll be published Dy Activison - but ASOS sors may as well ‘tert grinding thet teeth now” tos ke the {game hist wont ft into the smaller Archie, No sniggering ot the back SILICON FEN MOVES ON (Once upon timo, a Cambreige-based tim by the name of Carputors sod to build & home micro called the Lynx. The Lynx cou have boen a contender, as they say. exo2pt fora few litle quis ~ it wouldnt scl the | seroen once you reached the bottom line, thet land of thing. To cut «long story shot Computers eventually stopped producing the Lynx and shipped out. Thay were only the fist casuatties of tough winter: pot “Kmes sales convncod City analysts that the miro boom wos ovet. badly damaged Ore (the Atmos people) and drove Acom into the cams of Olver ‘Computers may be gone but thet foes behind an expensive restaurant on Cam bridge's Bdge Sore stil in uso by tho com puter industry. Now theyre home to a rather higher form of technology mind you: Pere Jon Hardware ene busy there, Duleing the ‘ABAG workstation for Alar, The Transputer technology diving he ABAA isc long. lon way ahead of the Lynx 220: represents whole new stage in the evolution of comput fos, and ABAG sees it one stage nem t© reaching beme-micro form. "ACE cought up with Perihelion in an exam hall on the University’s New Museums Ste, at q recruiting fax fx computer science undergraduates. Colour demos wntten. by Inmests Pal Alkin proved fo be crowd puller. ‘but only hinted ot the machines te power ‘Alter all, a ABAG picture in bel milion ‘olouss doesn’ lok that much better than cn ‘Amiga ono in c mate 4096 The millon: pax ‘black and white display gave archer bettor ison of scale, A 160column, 120 tne text seroen fs impressive but nct mind shatenng flr al, 1280x960 pins in mono is that ‘much betes than the resolution some Mac toch sotups oan manage — but the compar fpons deceptive. Its only the monitor thats ‘block and whit: tho ABA could comirt ‘bly manage 12801960 in 16 colours. Thats ‘timed 20 Alan ST game-sceens atc glance, ‘Gnd the ABA@s got the power to handle that ‘much display too. 194d omen Geog, [As youtl know if you read Game ot ta} rruture in ACE seue 4 the beauty of Tans pers is the way they oan compere ce cell functions: Thus you would hx 9g aying cols, motor calls to sit the ferm across the seen, sensor ces, andl 50 on. Natural selection can enter the game ve competition with other lietorms, and You can intocice mistation atthe egy ing stage, posibly employing radboociive 20nes to tagger itt Programs like Life. Mike Singletcn's home and Steve Dawkins: Blind Watch: \aker have oll estabished sound princes for tho gonoration cf onsetean Ie forms, Despite Mike's scepticism about the pos nes of intoducing info games at he present time, nero ot ACE wo rockon there enough joceasng power in an Amiga or an ST to something going One thing’ for certain ‘whichever sofware house succeeds producing an evolutonery’ game 8 ge" io make @ fortune, Mens. we suggest thot you keep practising you! Lovo: toc riguet - 9 that when the oppeation doos Sart acting up, youll be ready for ther @ Ficherd Dawkins’ program allows the user to define his own cll forms and then breed them, ‘mutate ther, and study them thoughout many generations. You can then save promising IMe-forms (or ‘biomorphs’ to disk for future breeding programs. Hore are two siages In 3 breeding program the final desired result isa bipedal being, Sc SERS SS aay oe rea cE Aavened Comper Enetanrent 39Waratah malta on a eta ee F 3 ea iin aeCompPeETITION™ S FREE FILMS [e77 FOR A YEAR! == Three lucky winners will get 52 free cinema - tickets each, plus two superb Cinemaware jackets for the runners-up. Yessr ifs ue Just mage ifs Friday evening = WHAT YOU HAVE TO BO. and teresa new fim on at you local Cannon high trained oy0 0 (Crem. Now you won have to quave up lke whe stil Below. taken from an feyore alse n fact. you won! even have Dec wich ol [ust ward in ike the star you ae and rao which aro enor ho arewer on term proves, Thats! Coulont be simpler, could i? 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We've got two of the hottest games we've seen for quite a while — Dungeon Master and Oids, both from FTL/Mirrorsoft. If you've been wondering what all the fuss about 16-bit megagames has been about, enlighten yourself now. Time, too, to . find out the facts behind the fuss over the Hewson/Telecom-soft wrangle — Steve Turner and Andy Braybrook took their wares to the big BT — you can see what it was they had in their suitcases in our reviews of Morpheus and Magnetron. Amiga owners get pole position on the track this month as well, with Ferrari Formula One, a mouse-controlled racing sim that leaves very little to be desired, apart from actually owning the car. And » once you've got a bellyfull of _ this month's goodies, don't forget to check out the latest conversions for your machine on the Updates pages. THE ma RATINGS | ko The ACE reviewing tear co spe HOW they're calculated... 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Tho fun tot @ screen entirely [SPEC e795 CHS Bases, fil tom one ledge to another, taking fge'n the process tn places, magnetic aoe eaten 19 send you Noha vers planed these prosent few prob> fiat (weakest fd the time imit Seperes on the relative suengths fun aod and Creer tc ae ‘arco Conputt stent 51‘SCREEN TEST ARKANOID 2 Balls bounce back from IMAGINE BOUNCING ° fun. as Arkanoid 2 The Aeakout supetcione PI ploduce a game which a with ts onggnanty, Dut wil et you ot the keyboard for lengtsy stm case you didnt know cus tendish ways (33 dt them prety. tek ‘TAD The opeeg a ep, lobe senn Bechet Een ead ri) Pears Nera TN Al you might get taser ie, an expandin SOKO-BAN Not-so-golden oldie from MIRRORSOFT. SOKO-BAN 2% 2% 2° desgned single screen mazes (and the abily 10 design almost £0 mote). Bach contains @ number of crates scattered apporeniy at random throughout the alleyways and on equal numberof des sgnatod crotostorage spots Your tasks ser ple - push the ciates one squaxe at a time round the meae unl they st upen the spots. ‘Qn maze number one this s petty si De, but by maze exht tungs ae geting ds tinclly icky. The problem is that you oan only push ONE crate atc time - hwo together ‘are fst Loo heavy to sh At best, you'd be Poteau met ad C64 Version eee ee) ety eCard Peta TN Ce LY able fo dloage them trem dierent angles ~ ft worst, theyll Block off an ext or becerne smmovatbiy lodged agains! a wal ‘You can access any screen of Soke-Ban without passwords so tt you really want 10 ‘Goourage yourell, ou can jake & peek ct say. sexen 42. 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Now Amiga owners can boil some monster skeletons down into bars of soap as Bonecruncher hits the 16-bit scene And that isn’t all SPECTRUM BLACK LAMP Frese 298 | STveon evevedene b= Act pee PANIES FAS Bias ivy ghaeu os @ ACE RATING 612 ATARI ST | SLAP FIGHT | moar ta | @ ACE RATING 568 68 evar Corp Enertanmen ROLLING THUNDER wou steana Specian tion eveneaie 6 ACERong TS weg ACERING OD @ ACE RATING 725 BMX SIMULATOR: Cosemave Sleek pay PLATOON (coon snc Spechon ver refewediawe 7 ACE ling S30 Cll veri evevesise7- ACE tng #1SCREEN TEST UPDATE™ 5 AIF 1 Dil regotns8t,$.98ch Spectr vrsonrveved ue 7- ACE Pong #55 Atne wath fo use of colour pl @ ACE RATING 959 AMIGA = BONECRUNCHER | sumer store s1485de BMX SIMULATOR Codemonien ch budget tie was a very popula : smectic otner a 3 chads 20 ie @ ACE RATING 959 @ACERATING 810 no ROLLING THUNDER soe ea Spectum vetonrvenod ie ¢- ACE Rong is Arsrodversen revevede ACE Rog $80 AIF Cia regreten 823812 ck Sacer von eid ue 7- ACE ng $6 The O64 Robsieggh may @ ACE RATING 730 lig compos wih, Secu counterpe IBM PC PIRATES Micoprose $26 95 Cite Ab -At ang 1 The game's teen fleshed outa ile sce it sk be ad i ad Creteter) } ext pices Your ship i eighty not ard tite bt rgpet an the | FC tar (Ch. This improves the game Stightiy and makes fun fo play fora whe [trea fuc @ ACE RATING 756 Acvances Conquer Enetanmert 69SPECIAL In theory, the joy of playing computer games is that you don't need to go off and find a human opponent: the com- puter itself provides the opposition. That's all very well for games like chess - it's just you and your micro on equal terms - but when it comes to Space Invaders there's something missing... 70 Advanced Computer Eteinent ‘here's no sembkrnce of eqpny, becouse it can keop throwing alone at you oll night It will always win in the end, The only thing in doubt is whether youll get more points than the noxt guy Betore you get killed the fun stats Is obvious really: youte rot on equal terms with the diiens, youte stil on the same It thas where feotng as other players The of the game expationce, with cll that human nesdling an boost ing playing a mr port in the proceedings. The game Involved can be vory simple better, some ~ and yet have you hooked, simply because re tying to beat other peo- ple How much better would & be then i you lve the other people direciy in your Games programmer been trying to encourage ths sat of group game-play untl teoenty theyve only had ‘ne person playing at cy one ake tums a itenatng two-player ction 4S arelly any a leplayer lust for ig ne compet rmult-player games iow several people on meting oF (mor ‘each othe ty offering ox mice pe n thes MID Me ull need ot troakinough wa croade BMX SIMULATOR Codemasters Specrum 1.0008 Astras £19008 cHi2s e1.a8ce Aga e14.900% est 214.900 pervellowssimultan econ mare onto the Lo sn even laugh chalong nat. 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Where ae they, Pl- received two new ‘fantasy roleplaying gzmpenon”” ‘games in one month - the matket i growing ‘My apologies, tellow Pgs, Dut dont very ‘ond the new lo-it machines ‘espa - we have geod reason fo! ou! clo idoally sued ‘0 ths fand of software. cctons Weve thetetore dced to EXPAND the sze Tist we received two more new fan of tis section, covenng areas of science te. tases this menth (Question itana Mightn ion, fantasy. ntercctive fiction, cave ‘Gweling, and spel casting. No doubt about fits going tobe a winnes Magic) which, being new reinases. needed the space we had Sot side forthe Ula games Second, despito the orginal ’AND we want YOU to holp us. Wete Siease schedules, the new Uitina V aden: not going to thrust hss new section upen you fue i al not Gvailable ard seemed sor, wo want yoU 0 el us what you want and tocover the sones without borig abe o lock how you. want it. 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Oi you know tat roleplaying is pow the largest growth arua onthe Sie! Jtverute scene? fs success fs bound 10 intuence oer, mare raditonal adventure sofware Nouses “What the Pugumn may consider DAD ‘oe the roleplaying game par excellencs Ihave dit ferent opmion, ts rasr a linuted gare in that the only way players oan ga experience pants s teugih combat This oan be damaging 'o the game, with players acting tokiy out ‘of character 16 go up a evel ‘Other games that do not have these restictions planed upon them are far etter. Two of these are Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Stounbringer They botn use dhiforent system ct ‘advancement, which prorice characters shared mare by the player ess by rulebook ‘WEP for example, uses a sysiom of czeer advance talbes to atlow the F ‘fom an apprentice level fo masiorsip, ask re! lle this dosant happen ovemugnt and does qoquse experience. bul these ane given mare for good roleplaying than combat skis, The ‘Grarocter can change case cnc doesnt have to stick oa gonetc lass such es MAGIC US Tut ean specie and hoceme, say. an ELEMENTAUIST or any o ‘Chatociera modded by the player, aid this makes the player fect he knows tho ch Ghosuaging beter le pleying The system Used by Stombainge. although diferent, has sm. ‘ir advantages. DAD players may disagree wilh wh think they should iy the systems Ihave mentioned ~ they wil simon Felion, Kshngbury ve sid about the game, Dut betore they exticse 1 em infinitely bette ‘Thanks for hese ineresing pois, Simon, Aculy, lam well anare ofthe games you mention bt ci findude thom in the ace, since twas prarly abou computer games. | used DAD as an iustraton Tiny because itis wo known arrangatron-oe players. We shoul alo gv i ret fr its rien raisng pubic interest role-playing games in goeral. 98 Advanced Computer Enerarment PATS _— PATCH | ‘Adventures often contain non-player charac- | fers, ard usualy oye as staic as the | seanery. To add bt of sce to your gare, ‘wy nat nave dangerous characters patrong the playing area on a requir boat which the player must work out ord 1 avokd dar oer? ‘The foloming GAC routine does ust hat and mores by using an obec (0. 50) as = haracer and moving tha objet rom room Toor’ asthe game progiesses Also needec ‘counter (wal use courier 100), a rather (marr 100") fo creek te progress ofthe characer area set of rooms, say 4108 nc tive whore the character can be. Weil stat the eneracter of Yo0™ 4, send i through rooms 587 and 8 then tur reund ana come, bak aga. and again. and again {© Lie 1 londs counter 100 wih the charac: fers stan room and maker 100 shows the Grecton of vavel. This shoud gon your in filsation sine urioce the parol begins alter another evet (a doo” opened ofan alan get Of perhaps) ~ ther make line + pat et the ‘ston fr tat ovont inten. 1 Line 2s atee on the character's ang pte rom numbers but rata he end yet. € Line 3s done whan tw characier reaches the ngres! numbered room ois beat. resets the marker fo stow the drecion of ‘ovement Yas changed and reduces cous! 100. © Line is the revere o! lew 2 ara ine $e reverse of ine 3 © Line 6 empy looks up the number Counter 100, reas ts 35 therm location the character object, and moves tho ject i ‘There's nothing to stop you having seve characters m your game oach with separa or possbly infersecing beats. 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