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ISSUE 9 JULY 1986

Publishing Executive

Roger Kean

Editor Malcolm Harding

Technical Editor Franco Frey

Art Editor Oliver Fray

Art Director Dick Shiner

Production Controller

David Western

Amtips Julian Rtgnall

Adventure/Strategy Editor

Sean Mast arson

Lettertech Gary Uddon

Staff Writers Gary Uddon.

Julian Rtgnall

Software Reviewers Mark

Peters, Dominic Handy.

Catherine Rees, Ben Stone,

Peter Lewis. Mtchaei Dunn,

David Hawkes

Contributing Writers Jon

Bates. Roy Jones. Graeme

(Odd. David Paul.

Garth Sump ter

Photography Cameron Pound

Production Matthew Uffindell,

Gordon Druce, Tony Lorton

Advertisement Manager

Roger Bennett

Advertisement Assistant

Nick Wilde

Subscriptions Denise Roberts

Mail Order Carol Kinsey

THE MAW HEADINGS

5 EDITORIAL

Malcolm Harding comments on items concerning

the Amstrad world

6 OH THE SPOT

The team examine more of your letters—and even

answer some of them with intelligence

42 CHAKT/MGH SCORES

45 STRATEGY

Sean Masterson examines the merits of

BATTLEFIELD GERMANY and DESERT RATS

53 RESULTS/WINNERS

The lucky winners from issue 6

55AMHPS

Julian Rignall turns his cartographic attention to

MOVIE and NOMAD and offers loads of tips and

advice

60 ADVENTURE

Our resident leprechaun discovers PRICE OF

MAGIK, ROBIN OF SHERLOCK and SEABASE

DELTA

38 and 69 AMTECH

This month an AMTIX! exclusive. How to beef up

your Joyce for only £20 plus other bits and pieces

and Lettertech

78 NEWS

A further update of what has happened and what

is going down

JULY SPECIALS

50 U S GOLD CALENDAR

The second section. Have you been collecting the

stars?

82 PREVIEWS

We take a prescient glance at three new games

being released soon on the Amstrad: SAI COM-

BAT from Mirrorsoft; CAULDRON II from Palace;

and DOOMDARK'S REVENGE from Beyond

TOP GAMES FOR JULY

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12 STARQUAKE

Save the galaxy with the help of Blob

14 TOMAHAWK

Digital Integration take to the air with a helicopter

simulation to test the most skilled pilot

18 FIFTH AXIS

Test out your unarmed combat skills

86 EQUINOX

The latest successful game from Mlkro-Gen

88 SWORDS AH0 SORCERY

Explore a maze of underground labyrinths In

search of adventure and fortune

92 MONTY ON THE RUN

On the run from prison Gremlin Graphics' mighty

mole finds refuge with the criminal underworld

80 THE AMTIX! CLUB PAGE

Malcolm Harding changes his briefcase, opens

the new one, and features user clubs from both

sides of the world

More adventure with the hardware softie

AMTIX! COMPETITIONS

33 NAME ALL BIGGIES' CHUMS

Mirrorsoft have a bumper bag of goodies including

copies of the BIGGLES game on offer

48 SHADOWFIRE

Pick a lock and open the door to a printer courtesy

of Saga and Beyond

52 THE VERY BIG CAVE ADVENTURE

Design an outrageous joke and win your own

practical Joke kit from CRL

77 ZERO IN ON STRKE FORCE HARRIER

Design a fighter aircraft for the year 2000 and win

a day out for two with British Aerospace as a prize

from Mirrorsoft

A HEWSFtELD PUBLICATION

Cover by Oliver frey

The next issue of AMTIX! goes on sale from 17 July

3 AMTIX! July 1986 ////

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The other package was

designed specifically for the

CPC6128 and the PCW8256 and

PCW8512, and Modem House

claim it is probably the most pow-

erful communications software yet

released for any Amstrad product,

and even includes CP/M tele-

software downloading facilities.

This software is supplied on disk

and requires either an Amstrad

CPS 8256 or similar interface. The

company say this will also support

the Magic Modem quite happily,

with full auto-dial, auto-logon and

auto-answer facilities.

Modem House sell both packs

for £75 retail excluding VAT.

Mr Rose also takes us to task on

an article about the Magic Modem

in the May issue. It appears Datas-

tar Systems are not the manufac-

turer of the Magic Modem. Indeed

the aforementioned is the forerun-

ner of Modem House's Voyager 7

and Datastar Systems act only as

distributors.

ELECTRONIC

INSECURE CLAIM

As computer enthusiasts become

more and more proficient with their

machines it appears users of elec-

tronic mail services are looking for

ways to stop people 'hacking'

their way into confidential flies and

services.

The threat from hackers was

highlighted recently when two

men appeared in court and were

found guilty of breaking into the

Duke of Edinburgh's electronic

mailbox. They were convicted of

forgery in illegally accessing the

Duke's Telecom Gold mailbox after

coming across a list of users and

their electronic passwords when

testing new computer equipment.

Users of services like Telecom

Gold are becoming ever more con-

cerned about the apparent ease

with which hackers can gain

access to confidential files. The

problem, apparently, with this type

of system is that subscribers don't

physically hold their messages.

Every user has his own mailbox

and password protection but the

boxes are held centrally on large

mainframe computers—accessed

via the public telephone system—

and when hackers break into that

no-one is safe.

Telex, on the other hand, is car-

ried in its own separate network

and is much more like postal deliv-

ery in that messages go directly to

the subscriber's address.

One company cashing in on the

use of telex is Data and Control

Equipment which sells a TeleBox

telex adaptor to computer users. It

is possible to link all the micros in

an office to the TeleBox unit enabl-

ing everyone to send and receive

telexes quickly and simply.

TAKING ON

THE BIG BOYS?

Croydon photographer, Vincent

Oliver, obviously enjoys a chal-

lenge. He bought an Amstrad

CPC664 to help run his business

but soon found out it was not all it

was claimed to be. He decided

Amstrad had misled him with their

technical advertising and he

decided he was gotng to do some-

thing about it.

He wrote direct to Alan Sugar

asking for his money back. Back

came a reply from one of Sugar's

minions telling htm first of all to

contact a software company

which had a range of CP/M titles

compatible for the 664. Investiga-

tion showed this was not the case

so he wrote back again and was

next advised to contact the retailer

from whom he purchased the

micro. He stuck to his guns and

after further correspondence was

given a credit note for the full cost

of the CPC664 which was enough

to buy a PCW 8256 Well done sir!

A CONFUSED STATE

ADVERTISERS' INDEX

It would appear certain members

of the editorial staff were in a con-

fused state when they wrote the

review of the Comet game for the

final sentence credited it to Rain-

bird instead of Firebird! The confu-

sion over the two names also

occurred in the news section

where it appeared Tony Rainbird

had joined Firebird. The heading

should have stated 'Rainbird set

to ignite the adventure world'.

Sorry!

Ailigata

AMTIX! Back Numbers

AMTIX! Mail Order 84.

A FW JOYCE FOR £201

AMT1X! Poster Offer 16.

AMTIX! Subs Offer 94

AMTIX! T-Shirts Binders

It's not often that mention is made

in the editorial of any specific arti-

cle in the magazine. However there

are always exceptions to the rule

and it is felt some space must be

given to an exclusive article in this

month's AMTECH section. The

article gives an easy to under-

stand. step by step guide, enabl-

ing any owner of a PCW 8256

machine to beef it up to the status

of an 8512 without the extra disk

dnve and the cost is just £20! That

is £180 less than the price being

asked by Alan Sugar albeit his

price includes a second disk drive.

Beyond

20,65

Cascade

Celcom

Evesham Micro

Gargoyle

Gremlin

Imagine

34.35

incentive

Infogrammes

SOFTWARE REVIEWED

IN TINS ISSUE

Battlefield Germany Cyber com

Bomb Jack Elite 12

Bullseye Macsen 37

Core A n F 26

Desert Rats CCS 46

Equinox Mikro-Gen 86

Fifth Axis Atftvision 18

Gunfright Ultimate 32

Heavy on the Maglck Gargoyle

Last V8 Mastertronic 25

Max Headroom Ouicksilva 27

Monty on the Run Gremlin

Graphics 92

Price of Maglk Level 9 61

Robin of Sherlock CRL/Delta 4

Lerm

Level 9

Liffsoft

Mikro-Gen

Mirrorsoft

Ocean

U S Gold

back cover

MONOPOLY FEARS

UNFOUNDED?

Virgin

29.78

A letter, in our May Lettertech sec-

tion. has prompted Modem House

to write to AMTIX! In it director, K

Rose says readers have no reason

to fear a monopoly on Amstrad

CPC6128 communications pac-

kages or indeed on any other

Amstrad micro. It adds Modem

House supply two entirely different

packages for the 6128. The first

was designed by David Husband

for the CPC464 machine but sup-

ports the entire CPC range and

was released in July last year. It

consists of a complete pack

including interface and communi-

cations software on ROM. Mr

Rose adds this package will sup-

port anyone's Magic Modem quite

happily, including Auto-Dtal as

standard.

THE MONTHLY

SOFTWARE

STAR FOR

YOUR US GOLD

CALENDAR

US GOLD

AMTIX

Saboteur Durell

Seabase Delta Firebird

Shogun Virgin Games

Starquake Bubble Bus

Swords and Sorcery PSS

Thunderbirds Firebird

Tomahawk Digital Integration

Turbo Esprit Durell

Winter Games U S Gold

5 AMTIX! July 1986 ////

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