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A game of skill and excitement.

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VOLUME 2

NUMBER 2 NOVEMBER 1985

FEATURES

• The C128 - in Depth

We take a look at Commodore's new baby

Editor:

Stuart Cooke

• Language Lab

This month Pascal comes under our experts eye.

Assistant Editor:

Marie Curry

•Small Print

Read our C-Itoh printer review,

Advertisement Manager:

Mik e Segrue

Advertisement Copy

Control:

Laura Champion

• The Amiga Unveiled

Commodore's latest offering scrutinised.

• Ted Chip

An in-depth look at this clever chip in the C-16 and Plus/4.

Group Editor:

Dav e Bradshaw

SERIES

Group Managing

Editor:

Wendy Painter

• Mach 1 1 8

The ﬁrst part of our type-in macro assembler for the C64

Managing Director:

Peter WePlain

Origination:

Ebony Typesetting

•Mastering the C-16

Continuing our C-16 programming series.

Design:

Argus Design

• Top Draw

Yet more graphics tricks from Allen Web.

OBuild a Better Basic

Editorial & Advertisement Ofﬁct

, No 1 Golden Square

London 1N1R 3A13

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The second part of our Basic extension package.

• Programming Projects

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How to create artiﬁcial landscapes on your 64.

Your Commodore is a monthly

magazine appearing on the ﬁrst

Friday of each month.

• Reliable Routines 9 2

Some handy routines for medium resolution plotting.

REGULARS

• Data Statements

•Input/Output

• Listings

•Submission

• Game of the Month

• Sense of Adventure

• Action Replay

• Teacher's pet

• Scratch Pad

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including all articles, designs.

plans drawings and programs

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Company .c• 1985 Argus

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GAMES AND UTILITIES

• Full Speed Ahead 3 1

Speed up loading and saving with this tape turbo for the C64.

• Split 64

Two into one does go with this handy routine,

•In Character 8 0

Design your own character set with this program for the C-16.

COMPETITION

• Commodore Here 4 9

Win one of 10 Commodore modems in this months competition.

ATA

announce that Your Commodore

now joined forces with Your 64 to bring

you the best Commodore magazine

around.

Publishers of Your Commodore,

Argus Specialist Publications, recently

concluded the purchase of Your 64 from

Sportscene Press. Peter Welham, ASP's

MD, said: "This acquisition consolidates

our position as one of the leading titles in t

the buoyant Commodore market and

further conﬁ rms our commitment to •

machine speciﬁc titles."

We're pleased to welcome all our new

readers to our pages and we can promise

that you won't be disappointed, we're

really going to have our work cut out over

the next few months making sure we

bring you only the best in software and

hardware reviews, games and utility

listings, plus many exciting and absorbing

features for you to relish.

We're also very conscious of the fact

that a magazine is nothing without its

readers and so we'll be waiting anxiously

for the postman every day to ﬁnd out what

you really think about our magazine.

Write to us at Your Commodore, No 1

Golden Square, London W1R 3AB and tell

us what you think are the best (and

worstl) features of the magazine and give

us your ideas on what needs to be

included. We promise to read everything

you send so get those letters in the post

now,

Stay with us over the next few months

and we'll bring you the only Commodore

magazine worth reading.

Stuart

THIS MONTH, WE'RE DELIGHTED 11

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Part of Ariolasoft's new range

Chatting up

The sky's the limit

COMPUNET IS DEVELOPING A NEW SER-

vice scheduled for a late autumn launch.

It is a scrolling. CB style chat facility. The

chat line will allow users to hold

conversations in real time with other users

all over the country.

Contributions are typed into a window

at the bottom of the screen while a second

window above displays messages from

other users. By scrolling back and forth

the whole conversation can be reviewed.

Users with similar interests can form

groups by using individual chat lines

which will be provided and those wanting

a chat can monitor various conversations

before deciding which one to join.

For further information contact:

Compunet, Metford House, 15-18

Clipstone St, London VV1P 713E

ARIOLASOF'S RECENT SUCCESS, SKY-

fox, has now been released on cassette

priced at £9.95. The game was originally

only available on disk and the cassette

version eventually released was the third

attempt at maintaining the standard of

Skyfox since two earlier conversions were

rejected by the manufacturers as being

not up to scratch.

Skyfox is only one of a number of new

releases from Ariolasoft. The latest titles

are Racing Destruction Set, Pinball Con-

struction Set, Adventure Construction

Set, Music Construction Set, Seven Cities

of Gold and Mail Order Monsters. So far

these titles are only available on disk and

are all priced at 04.95.

Ariolasoft can be contacted at Suite

105/105 Asphalte House, Palace St.

London SW1E 5HS.

YOUR BEST ItCEPEPOENT COMMODORE MAGAZIPE

Starstruck

STARION FROM MELBOURNE HOUSE IS

now available for the Commodore. It was

originally released for the Spectrum and

Amstrad computers.

The game will be priced at E9.95 and is

obtainable from Melbourne House,

Castle Yard House, Castle Yard,

Richmond TWO 6TF.

Beyond the fringe

BEYOND IS BRANCHING OUT WITH

two new games.

The ﬁrst is the computer version of

Superman, a game developed as a joint

venture with First Star. Bill Delaney.

Beyond's MD said: "It will shoot to

number one in every software chart."

Beyond has also formed a partnership

with another software house. Nexus. The

ﬁrst game to appear on the new label will

be called Nexus and will be a

• sophisticated graphic adventure where

the player becomes an investigative

journalist inﬁltrating an evil drugs ring in

South America.

According to Nexus, the game will

offer maximum playability and user

friendliness. Instead of having to read

pages of documentation before starting,

the player will be able to experience

action straight away through on screen

instructions. Nexus will also feature

digitised video images which, it is

claimed, will generate realistic animation

enabling the player to recognise various

characters.

Nexus costs19.95 and is available from

Beyond, Durrant House, 8 Herbal Hill,

London EC1R SEj.

Starion from Melbourne House

Beach Head II is the follow-up to

Beach Head and features multiscreen

play, complex strategy, animation and

high speed arcade action.

Ghostchaser takes Harry around

Fairport Manor where he must blast large

ghosts which materialise at random.

All the new titles are for the C64 on

cassette or disk and cost 9.95 and f14.95

respectively. You can get in touch with US

Gold at Unit 10, The Parkway Industrial

Centre, Heneage St, Birmingham B7 ASLY.

Gold standards

US Gold has brought out yet another

batch of new releases. The three latest

titles are Monster Trivia, Beach Head II

and Ghostchaser_

Monster Trivia is a spin off from the

enormously successful board game,

Trivial Pursuits, but in this version you get

killed by a monster if you get enough

•questions wrong.

Vox pop

POP STAR, FEARGAL SHARKEY, HAS

recently become the owner of the ﬁrst

production model of Supersoft's digital

sampler for the C64.

He visited the Supersoft stand at the

Commodore Computer Show and was

very impressed with the sound

reproduction quality of the new product.

The sampler is called Microvox and

offers eight different sampling rates, up to

a maximum of 42KHz which gives a 10KHz

band width_ Samples can be played

forward or backward and there is full

editing and looping with a high resolution

display.

A 2000 note sequencer is included as

part of the Microvox software with real

time recording and step time editing.

Microvox costs f 299_95 and is available

through music shops, computer stores or

direct from Supersoft at Winchester

House, Canning Rd, Wealdstone, Middle-

sex HA3 TIS. A disc drive is essential.

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