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February 1988

Matchday II: Is this

the best soccer game

ever produced?

Error traps

explained

Win a trip to the

Munich Eum-ﬁnals

Speed up your

printing with

Microstuffer

Plus: Driller, Adventure

analysis, serious software

clinic and much more

The Ofﬁcial Amstrad Home Computing Magazine

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The ofﬁ cial magazine for all

users of Amstrad computers

PROGRAMMING

Cage Page

Kermit is not a frog, as

our tame Amsters

discover.

REGULARS

p News

0 Software without a

name doesn't sell as

sweet. Gary Lineker and

Johnny Dunfries help

promote some games.

FEATURES

Basic tutor

Jeff Walker looks at ON

ERROR, the safety net

for Basic programmers.

Letters

Prime advice and a

compo for those of you

outside Europe.

World War

A military strategy

listing for the CPC 664

and 6128. Practice your

pincer movements.

Matchday II

Wizzo football feuding

from Ocean's star

striker. ACU's view from

the terraces cheers the

champions home.

Adventures

Killed until dead and Yes

Prime Minister represent

joystick-driven adventure

games, while Stationfall

shows that Infocom is

still master of interactive

ﬁction.

Assembly Point

Pick up those stix in the

machine code game

where areas need to be

ﬁlled.

REVIEWS

Driller

The debut of Freescape

with Incentive's smash

solid 3D hit. Is it worth

all the hype?

The Hairy

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Hackers Haunt

Gardeners question time.

Vax weeds out the

pokes, and harvests the

hints.

Saracen

Off to the crusades with

a graphically poor but

very playable budget

game.

Gallup chart

The ofﬁcial hit parade

brought to you from a

survey of retail shops.

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Applications

Li Advice

Solving a host of Mini

Ofﬁce problems and

printer puzzles is all in a

page's work for David

Foster.

Jack The Nipper II

Jack goes 2D in coconut

capers. Spritey jungle

fun.

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Amstrad User February 1988

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Alexandra Palace

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The Great Hall

Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Park

Wood Green, London N22

February 4-6

Post to: Amstrad Show tickets,

Europa House. Arilington Park,

Adlington, Macclesﬁ eld SKI° SNP.

Ifs so easy to get to the show - by car,

rail, andergroand or bus. Alexandra

Palace has its own British Rail station,

whis k ing visitors to and from King's

Cros s in Just nine minutes. And there's

a free bus service shuttling between

station and show every 10 minutes.

If you're travelling by road the shawls

only 15 minutes away from function 25

on the M25 - and all car parking is

free.

Please supply

O Adult tickets at E2 (save El)

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APCW 1.48 (28)

Say it

February 4 to 6 and not

January 28 to 30 as

previously announced.

Organisers Database Exhi-

bitions, the computer show

specialists, agreed to

postpone the start of the

three day event after learn-

ing that the problem lay in

the installation of — a com•

puter.

The machine in question

has been designed to act as

the nerve centre of the con.

trol room, monitoring all

aspects of security, including

ﬁre safety, at Alexandra

Palace.

"As the current renovation

work followed a major ﬁre

back there in 1980, there was

no way our show could go

ahead until this ﬁnal stage of

the work had been

completed", said Peter

Brameld, the exhibition's

marketing director.

The Great Hall — setting for

the show — is the heart of

Alexandra Palace, With

almost 7,000 square metres

of completely clear ﬂoor

space it has natural diffused

light from the single span

translucent roof.

High technology, creative

design and the most modern

materials blend with trad-

itional Victorian decor.

The splendid stained glass

rose window, the renovated

arches and the great Henry

Willis organ, make it the

focal point of the whole

Palace,

"It will provide the perfect

setting for what will be the

grandest Amstrad Computer

Show to date", said Derek

Meakin, managing director

of Database.

with a

Lithsp

HITHSOFT have produced

their own version of Lisp, the

lithst procethssing language

to run under thC/PM. lth's

bathsed on Common Lithsp

(OK, enough of that - Ed), but

"includes many extra func-

tions from other ﬂavours of

the language.

It costs E49,95 and comes

with a free copy of Tony

Hasemer's Looking at Lisp.

HiSoft is on (0525) 718181.

Lineker

takes to

the air

Computer

delays

computer

Firebird

launches

show

BRITAIN's number 1 footbal-

ler, Gary Lineker, has always

been light on his feet, but

just recently he's been

receiving a little mechanical

assistance.

As our picture shows

Gremlin Graphics hired a

Bell Jet Ranger III helicopter

to transfer him from London

to Leicester to promote their

game, Gary Lineker's Super

Star Soccer.

Disco

A LAST minute delay to the

renovation work at London's

world famous Alexandra

Palace has forced a date

switch for the next Amstrad

Computer Show.

The show — the eighth in

the series — will now be held

in Ally Pally's Great Hall from

NO, nothing to do with

Firebirdis ex-boss who is

well known in the hottest

night clubs. The boss, Paul

Hibbard (pictured below), is

an ouppie — that is an older

yuppie. Firebirdis new label

is Disc only, Hence Disco,

clever eh'? No, we didn't

think so either.

Oops

THE Gremlins struck the big

screen program in the

January issue. Here are the

corrected lines.

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00,00,00,C5,1093 2430 DATA

B8,00,3A,C7,C7,A6,07,38,0C,

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Martech signs on the line

JOHN Forrest lleftl of Elec.

tronic Arts lEAI has clinched

a deal with David Martin of

Martech which will be of

great importance to our

European readers.

Fron now on all Martech

live in Spain or Britain. The

ﬁrst of these will be Nigel

Mansell's Grand Prix, a

game which deserves to do

well even if the great man

did miss Out on the cham-

pionship after his accident in

practice before the Japanese

Grand Prix.

There are eight Amstrad

discs, each with two games

on them, priced at E6.99.

Unfortunately, with the usual

startling British Telecom

Silver efﬁciency they have

forgotten to tell us what the

games are.

w4-

games will be distributed to

you through EA, unless you

Amstrad User February 1988

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