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    sey Argus Specialist Publicatio’® ait AT HEALTH RISK ees Sone SPACE GAMES Space invader games put as much hers have identified ing the game on a labora micro at Birmingham University t Dr. Douglas Carrol nt Jane Sims. want to find out why Reviews of yaaa for VIC-20 ‘come along since. We ae finding in some individuals Atom Profile of |& <1 Ea ts cok house ats bah VET EM DM | ren on wom ute tess would Atari, He snp we es | = 2 bchetabdbenall | 8 5 8° | For details please ring 051-236 6849 Continued on page 3 15 SPECTRUMS (48K) + PRINTERS + £2500 OF QUICKSILVA SOFTWARE Hewson Consultants We proudly announce our 1983 range of SPECTRUM SOFTWARE By Andrew Hewson andJohn Hardman Spectrum iow to load and save machine code, low to use the system variables. jowprogramlines are stored jowto use the sack the display, the irbute files, Section B: 40 routines including, (© Rotate character, invertcharacter— horizontally and vertically. © Une renumber-neluding GOSUBs, GOTOs, RUN ote BACKGAMMON vex £5.95 8 Levels of play from novice to expen. Fulleolour display of tables and dice, Gamabieon setigls gamer seers, double or quits. Allthe features of, theancient game, . |COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD £5.95 1B and 48K on one cassette Countriesof the Worldisan educational package designed to give an appreciation ofthe location of allthe ‘main countries and some information about them, 16K version diplaysaworld map, PLUS: Two complate world map fcreon displays for you to include in showsthe position of esch country and your own programs. ramos its capital 448K version allthe above plus prints the population, size, currency, an main languages ofeach country, and Statistics on largest and smallest, Fiyyourown aircraft, lestuments and readouts AUH-ALT. HDG, FL, GR, VOR, VSI. WIND, OMe, ADF-an ILS 00 "NIGHTFLITE”, Essentially the same as NIGHTFLITE” but vahout the Hi Res Graphics | quantity iF I r r == ae Sjeea independent guardians. | Magiestrawberries. Real time scoring. | Page 2 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983, 40 BEST MACHINE CODE ROUTINES FOR THE ZX SPECTRUM Section A: Three chapters explaining what you ‘Reed to know about 280 machine codean the (© Scroll-up, down, sideto side by piel or by (© Soarch androplace, token swap, string leaoes oni Doug!’ PUCKMAN 16K js, — Sere] Hess Naaee 20 BEST PROGRAMS FOR THE ZX SPECTRUM £5.95 ByAndrew Hewson Program tis include: Machine Code Editor Write, modi extend {and load machine code using this all. basic program, Noneedto use an Assembler when ‘Youhavethis program. Index File Learn about fixed length records, save numeric and sting information, edt, Sort, modi, delete and print your records, Ideal as a computer based fling system, Duekshaot-Learmhow to manipulate the attibutesfileandhave un atthe sametime. Graphix~Constructup 0210 graphies nthe full on-screen editing £5.95 Tater to bull a detalled display to savecon Plus: FOOTBALL, DIGITISER, DIARY and many NIGHTFLITE 16and48K £5.95 NIGHTELITE puts you atthe controls of Blight airraft fying at night. You can Climb, descend) take of and, bankleft or right Navigate between beacons, Raisellower the flaps, Raise/lower the undercarriage, Adjustengine pm, Raisevlower the nose varying amounts. ‘Runway lights appear on approach Smodes including Autopilot. Written by a qualified ight aircraft pilot. SPECVADERS £4.95) Defeat each squadron of Beople Zaps # 4 ¢ € and another appears only closer. Gyrian mothersnip with ejecting Zeetle Baps. su Slevels ofplay from Orions snails pace totloneyourdvesandhone Fal i Slwves, Pan galactic {gavae losterfor highest score escending asteriods. MAZE CHASE £ 4.95 ‘andask 4or8Mazes, Highest scoreto date, 4independent guardians, slives, Fullcotour, Fast machine code action rmagie stawwberis. eat lemons {o-score more real time scoring Product Total se Signed. |My Access/Barclaycard No. is —___ Postto: HEWSON CONSULTANTS, 60A St Mary's Street, Wallingford, Oxon OX10OEL. Te!v0a91) 3607, Hew 2 CONTENTS New software to sell? Nee esas aetna, Advertise it here! Ring Coleen or Barry on 01-437 1002 NOW ‘Commercial TV stations and the BBC have been given consent to broadcast programs for direst downloading into micros. ‘The Telecommunications Bll has been amended by the Government in a Commons Junior industry minister John Butcher said telesoftware ‘was permitted now, but only if it was capable of TV display too. Direct downloading meant the signals went sraight into computers without a visual display Oric-1 software is being produc ‘ed by anew company, Kenema Associates. Included in the range is a £15 Multipurpose/Personnel Records File which, says Kenema, allows mass storage and file handling of confiden- tial information on personnel or products. There is also an Oric-l Keyboard Trainer, games, books and accessories, in: cluding American Oric-1 Tshirts Kenema Associates, 1 Marlborough Drive, Worle, ‘Avon. BS22 0DQ coe Screen glare getting you down? Regisbrook says it has come up with the answer — an aerosol spray for £8.95. It dries to a serateh-resistant matt film which is said 10 cut reflected glare by up to 75 per cont while retaining 98 per cent of the brightness with only a negli ble effect of clarity Regisbrook has also brought cout Anit-Matter, an aerosol spray cleaner for similar surfaces. The two products can be bought together at £14.50. Regisbrook, Studio House, 215 Kings Road, Reading, Berks RGIALS. Al the latest — new software, new micros Tandy printer ... ++ 16-17 1k costs under £150, but how good is it? Profile: Quicksilva . see ee 18D Te all began in a backroom with a 2X80. BBC programming tip . . +2 +21 Get BIG lettering the easy way Micro dials micro ............22-23 How your computer can speak to others 2X81 special: 211K programs ours of fun with five pages of programs to type in Commodore 64 program .. . . . .30-31 ‘Type it in and save the nation from atomic waste VIC-20 program . .... Makes maths fun for youngsters with a smiling face for correct ‘What you've been saying 10 us Atariprogramming ... .. +++ 36-37 Using three unexplored features Atomprogram ....... aoe BD Grab the money and avoid the arrows VIC-20 favourites ‘The games I've most enjoyed — two pages of reviews Spectrum program ..... ‘An eye-catching fruit machine game. Just type it in and place your bets [Advertisement Manager: Coleen Pimm News Editor Assistant Advertisement Manager: Paal Liptrot Barry Bingham Managing Director: Jim Connell “Argus Specialist Publications Lid 145 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H OEE. 01-437 1002 ‘ome Computing Weekly poli on Tosdays, Dsebton by Argus Press Saker and Datributon Lig, 1214 Pal Stet, London EC2A 18, Printed by ‘Alabester Pasmore & Sons Lid, of London and Maidstone, Ket, Design abd ‘iginatonby MM Design and Prints Chasing Crow Rd London WAH OEE |, 1983 No. 2 mia To advertise your latest products! Ring Coleen or Barry on 01-437 1002 NOW! Continued from Front Cover reater chance, on average, of later suffering from hears pro- blems. Dr Carroll said: “W ing space invaders to imitate what may be happening in other stressful situations.” Volunteers wore electrodes 10 measure their heart rates and ‘masks to measure their respira- tion, Away from the laboratory the electrodes were connected 10 tiny tape revorders 10. record hheart rates in their day-to-day lives, formal heart beat is 70 per minute. While playing space in- vaders it went up to 90-100. Describing the body's reac tion to the game, Mrs Sims said: “It's like driving a car on busy roads or doing some hard study. This has to be put against any other risk factor like diet or smoking. “The fac ofthe matter is that ft was not necessarily those who were addicted to the game who hhad a high heart rate. “None of them seemed to mind doing it. The people we were testing have been involved in ‘ther projects, so this is nothing ‘unusual for them. “They all seemed 10 have been happy playing the game. 1 don’t play very much myself — 1 don’t find the time. The study, financed by the Medical Research Council, is a pilot projet due to end in November, Artic Computing boss Richard Turner smiled when he heard of the study and said: “Does this mean we'll have to put a Government health warning He said: “The people who play our games are usually teenagers. Your average overweight SO-year-old doesn't play space invader-ype games. “It might be a strain on the heart, but they can take it ‘And Mark Butler, partner in Liverpool software house Im- agine, said: “We design an ar- cade game so that people's heart rates do increase. My heart beats faster when I'm playing football —and that’s good for you.” HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 Page 3 HAVEN HARDWARE ZX PRODUCTS & JUPITER ACE SAE for dts Aahy Road, Ash Woskingten, Comba CATS ARR Some of the products ate siso avaiable Irom the following agents TABU TER S08 374A STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, LONGON SW16, CROWARE. © ST PETER'S LANE, LEICESTER PHILLP COPLEY Hii. 7 CLIFFARD COURT, OSSETT. WEST YORKSHIRE ‘TRADE ENQUIRIES WELCOME 2X80 & 2X81 HARDWARE FRepesting Key Module KIT €3.98 BUILT £5.95 [ee tevtawes by Sonus Computing Welly Inverse Video Module "KIT £2.95 BUILT £4.50 (Re reviewed by Popular Computing Weet!y Kevboerd Beoper Module KIT £6.95 BUILT £8.50 ryooard Entry Modula KIT (2,95. BUILT £4.95 InputiOutputPort KIT £10.95 BUILT £14.95 (Con'be Seed with 18K RAM and printer without motherboard) Programmable Cherscter Generator KIT £17.95. BUILT £24.98 ‘3K Memory Expansion BUILT for ony £12.00 Full Size Keyboard with Repeat Key The fst of ts kind Bute version plge im, KIT'E19.98 BUILT £28.99, 2X Edge Connector 23:Way Long gold plated pins £2.95 BE Spreinem version £3°50 2X SPECTRUM SOFTWARE CASSETTES. FX sshnachine Gover gopne representations of fut. Including HOLD end Games 498 Soltalre Aiphe Numeric move entry. 4.95 “The popular card game (cheat proot!, £5.95 nnese Logie Game. £5.95, REPOLSER Rope! the sin invasion, 64.95 WE ALSO STOCK A LARGE RANGE OF RESISTORS. CAF Rete Curd Ore Accaveod FEN fing ove cscczy reancaprone, SANA STOP PRESS!! | SE cpr peel tennetiny 2x specrnuM mown ror neh 95, oat 11595, uae | [IPMS mae ‘trotna boc of te spectrum coesnt require mstherbord (ses AASIC Telephone: 01-504-0589 7g Compluropia i pans OM IA | PXJOp BEG «« At last — a printer for every Pocket! MICROMAX — SPECIAL le BRAGON. 32K INTRODUCTORY OFFER ONLY £69 + VAT SPEED SELECTABLE . Arcadians Word Processor SERIAL OR PARALLEL Planetoids Mailing List INTERFACES AND CABLES. ‘Snapper Stock Control AVAILABLE FOR: Monsters Planet Invasion Jumbo Invaders Revenge SINCLAIR ZX 81 SPECTRUM VIC... DRAGON ETC.. A vast selection of cassettes, cartridges and joysticks for both computers UP TO 24 STANDARD OR PNRANGED eee and PRINTERS from £235 PER LINE . please for details to 30 Lake Street TON BUZZARD Beds Tel 0525 376600 tatcom Ltd, 234 High St., Sutton, Surrey SMI INX 01 661 2266 a ca Oe ada Continued from Front Cover data. The mos reliable i to tape it onto a cassette recorder radio. ‘This means the volume can be adjusted when the program is loaded into the computer. A se- cond method is 10 connect the radio directly to the computer In this way listeners can see the program on screen as itis be- ing discussed in the studio. Longer programs, starting with the Newlrain and the Epson HX.20, will be broadcast after the station's 1am closedown 10 $.45am, Radio stations are obliged 10 broadcast a steady tone during non-programme hours. Every 15 inutes a tape recorder in Radio Wests studio automatically sends out an identification “message. ‘The data is simply being added 10 this. Edwin, who broadcasts as Zorte, said: "Micro. enthusiasts ‘are well known for burning the ‘midnight oi.” ‘Tim and Edwin believe itis the first time in Britain that radio hhas been regularly used 10 transmit programs. Why does Edwin use the me Zorte? He explained: When I first arrived here I was in motorcycle gear and they thought I looked like an alien, so they called me Zorte from the planet Oje — an anagram of Joe Tope. Some pone me Radio West broadcasts on 238m (1260KHz) medium wave ‘and 963 VHF. According 10 Edwin, its medium wave signal, transmitted from Mangotsteld, north of Bristol, can be received in a 40-mile radius, and the FM signal, which comes from Daudney Hill, south of Bristol, covers a 25-mile radius Strangely, they have found ‘data reception is more reliable on medium wave. Datarama goes ‘out_on Monday nights at 7.30-8pm, BBC Television's series Making the Most of the Micro also transmitted program last night. “It wil be broadcast again when the programme is repeated Radio West, P.O. Box 963, Watershed, Canon's Road, Bristol BS99 7SN. Send a stamped addressed envelope. Latest official sales figures for ‘monthly computer magazines ‘how that two have lost readers land two have chalked up gains. ‘Computing Today, at $3.138, is up by 3,088 and Personal Com: ‘Type A jack plug — perfectly safe grip puter World (85,105) has gained Type B jack plug — surface with no grip Big response to call-back ‘Sinclair's appeal for faulty Spec {trum power supplies to be return ed has brought a massive response “Our production director is confident he wil get them. all back,” said a. spokesman for Sinclair Research. “'Keeping our fingers crossed, there doesn't seem to have been any ac- iden The appeal went out after a batch of 28,000 power supplies sold with Spectrum and made by sub-contractors were found 10 hhave faulty cables which, under some circumstances, could be dangerous Half were returned from stocks held by retailers and Sinclair anda. personal leter from Clive Sinclair went to mail order customers. ‘A. spokesman said: “They seem to be coming back fast — people are responding very quick- ly. They are getting their replacements in seven to 10 days. we have given is for returned power supplies only, not for other mail,” ‘The problem is only with Specirums bought between January 1 and up to three weeks ‘ago and only if the ead between the power supply and the com- puter is black with a white stripe. ‘And. it only affects power supplies with a smooth-surfaced 18,563 sales. ‘The two which have lost cir- culation are Practical Comp (49,052), which is down by 11,720, and_ Your Computer (73,875), 11,375 less. ‘The most recent figures, checked by the Audit Bureau of { Circulations, are for the six m¢ ths to December and are com- ‘pared with the same six months in 1981 Potentially dangerous ‘Your Computer's sles figure {is compared with its first. ABC — not textured — finger-grip on | rating, forthe six months to June. the jack plug. 1982. Its rival, Personal Com- Sinclair says anyone in any | puting Today, has a first ABC doubt about the ype of jack plug | figure of 62,066. should return their power supply. | Computing Today and Per- The address: Sinclair | sonal Computing Today are own- Research Ltd, Unit F, Broad | ed by the publishers of Home Lane, Cottenham, Cam-| Computing Weekly, Argus bridgeshire, CBS 4SW Specialist Publications. ‘out of town who had difficulty Software by | bvying the latest goods. Ir Features software, books post and add-ons for the Atari 400] London software stockists The | and 800, T1.99/4A, BBC micro, Video Palace has started a mail | Spectrum, VIC-20 and Com: order operation with the first of | modore 64, along. with advice its quarterly catalogues and recommendations and a 10| Managing director Peter | per cent discount voucher. Stone said he was responding to | The Video Palace, 62-64 Kens postal enquiries and was aiming | ington High Street, London, to give a service to people living | yg Top Ten programs for the Spectrum The Hobbit Sinclair Flight Simulation Sine VU-3D Sinclair Time Gate Quicksilve Penetrator Melbourne House Hungry Horace Sine! Chess Sinclair Avenger ‘Abacus 3-D Tanx DK Tronik 0 Escape New Generation Compiled by W.H. Smith Four years ago ‘Among the first computers from the Far East was the §G-2001 Video Genie, produced for an ‘American customer, which came with 4K of ROM and a cartridge slot. . .a letter editor, written by IcL for the Nascom-1, came on two EPROMs and cost £70, plus eight per cent VAT. . .Commodore's PET, with screen and built-in cassette player, cost £643.52 and included 8K of RAM. HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983. Page 5 Atari chief to go it alone In a surprise move, Atari chief Graham Daubney has quit the company 10 go into software sales. He has bought into Birmingham-based Centresoft, un for nine months by Jeff Brown, and one of his first jobs is to open a London office. ‘Mr Daubney, married with a year-old daughter, said: “I'm ‘now out in the big wide world. It was something I wanted to do in about two years, but this was an ‘opportunity. “Pve known Jeff and his wife Anne for quite a while and ‘we got together and worked out a deal. We got down to the nitty- arity when I got back from the ‘States in late January. “Myself and Atari have pparted on good terms. I was very sad to leave, but it was an oppor- tunity I couldn't miss. My wife Jan is all in favour, t00."” He said Centresoft at pre- sent had a catalogue of 100 titles ‘on cassette, disco, ROMs and ‘cartridges. “The company Which specialises in Atari soft- ware — imports from America and distributes to the UK and Europe. Mr Daubney, 28, said Centresof’s aim was 10 act as a filter, weeding out “the rubbish” to supply retailers only with good quality products. He planned 10 expand Centresoft’s range. Mr Daubney, who was one of four to set up Atari’s UK com- ‘puter operation in April last year, resigned as product manager of the home computer division. He ‘tid he had also been asked to be European editor of an Atari ‘magazine, due in the UK in three months. Centresoft, 26 Great Combow, Halesowen, West Midlands sellers with games and education Commodore attacks on home front Commodore says itis now No. 1 in sales of home and personal computers — quite an announcement from a company, which, in ‘my opinion, was a non-starter here a year ago. And Commodore predicts it will also be No. 1 in business computers too by this time next year its new Commodore 64, reported to be selling at the rate of 30,000 a month, has been re-clasified by the company from a per- sonal 10 a home compuer, which must mean, by its definition, a ‘drop in price to below $00 dollars There has, in fact, been a flock of announcements from Com: modore. 1's new portable, weighing just 12 Ibs, has a builtin Sin screen, half-size dual $%4in floppy discs, 64K of RAM, a combi- ‘nation of 280 and 6510 processor chips and costs 1,000 dollars for the monochrome version. Then there's a speech synthesizer for the (64. It uses the SAY statement in a similar way 10 PRINT — you ‘enclose whatever is 10 be “spoken” in quotation marks. ‘Commodore also announced its Model 128 which, not surpris: ingly, has 128K of RAM and a price of 795 dollars. There’s the hand-held HHC-4, 100, which can be hooked up to a regular TV ‘screen, although it comes with a built-in liquid crystal display, and a video output 10 drive a monitor. In the games department, Commodore talked about its Digi- ‘Drum peripheral that can be connected to either the 64 or the VIC- 20. This neat toy ia three-pad miniature drum set that allows the user 10 simulate the sounds of a snare drum, bass drum and high ‘hat when connected 10 a stereo system. It's expected to cost about the same as a game cartridge. ERAEAAAAIISE Uf you have a Sinclair 1000 (2X81 10 you) and are wondering what ‘else you can do with it, wonder no longer. The Watchmaker's Guidebook to the Timex/Sinclair Computers is available by mail ‘order from TSG Enterprises {lists about 120 software suppliers and $0 hardware manufac turers and other useful information such as user groups, books and articles which may be helpful. ‘A chapter offers help on writing BASIC programs. Writen by peter Beck, the plan is 10 update the book quarterly. Send 3.95 dollars (an international money order is best) plus shipping and handling charge to TSG Enterprises, Guidebook, $4 Richwood Place, Denville, New Jersey 07834. Shipping and handl- ing isa dollar in the U.S. Add more for the UK, or ask TSG. ERE EAAAEEAAEE 10 important to have a sense of humour inthis business. The frst rock ‘n’ rol video game has been brought out by Data Age, of ‘Campbell, California, “Available only for the Atari 2600 video game player, its called Journey Escape and stars the rock band Journey. It’s basicaly your Fundamental day in the life ofa rock star game. In order to win you ‘have to get your group past hordes of groupies and assorted other “drawbacks” of Wife in the R & R fast lane Only in California. . Bud lzen totalling two-thirds of software Derds Fuel | ies Domestic uses added up to Micro HOOM | ony sxpercen. ‘One home in every 20 has a microcomputer — and a quartet | modet fof them were sold in December, | 2X81 Saysanew survey. rum Mai buyers are father wit | Vicon schookage children. And once | BBC Micro the micro i at home the main | Dragon twsers, a 80 per cent are father | Sharp MZ230K and son. Wife and daughter add ‘up to just 11 per cent of the users. | Market shares of leading machines} “The under make up 48 per cent of users and the 20-50 ge group’ accounts for another | outlet % $9 per cent. The over-0s and | Mailorder » those aged 18-20 seem to have lit- | Wh Smiths B te interest. Specialist shop 16 “The survey, by Gowling | Spectrum $ Marketing Services for the trade | Daxons 5 fortnightly Microscope, was car- | Other High St shop 3 ried out in January and late | Boots 3 February and included 2000 UK | Currys MieroC 2 households Lasks's 1 Tt alo showed that oneshied | Other Py ‘of home computes were bought | Don't know 3 in chain stores and 19 per ent by mailorder. ‘Where computers were bought "Arcade games were the best we % Let us KNOW | Acad: eames 3 Educational 2% IF you are in the microcomputer | Business a business, please let us have your | Graphics 0 news and. products to review. | Home economics 6 Contact Paul Liptrot, "Home | Asembler 3 Computing Weekly, 145 Charing | Other/don't know s ‘What the machines are sed for Page 6 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 Fairfield, California SPECTRUM PROGRAM A colou money An eye-catching fruit machine game for the Spectrum, written by Clyde Bish My fruit machine program has proved itself a good money raiser for charity at fetes. Writen for the Spectrum, makes eye-catching use of the colour and graphics facilites. Line $30 is particularly in teresting as it uses the SCREENS function in a way ‘not mentioned in the handbook to simulate the DF CC variable of the ZX81 The program as listed gives € profit of about Ip per roll This can be increased oF decreased by altering either the PRINT AT 7,12; 300 INK 4: PRINT PRINT _BT 3h iat e PRINT AT THREE PAY FLasH a; SH-O; INK PRINT AT ROLL” : 2 : : 2, | To 40 om 3 fe THEN co NEXT i 86 To 200 INK'@:" PRINT AT 19,8; FOR zp FOR f=a TO S PRINT AT 8,12+2sf; INT (RND# 4 a “ a a 3 3 NEXT f NEXT 9 Cet a SCREENS 3,48) IF _a8<>b$ AND b$<>c# AND ag THEN Ga To Seao LET d=47 cer SCREEN SCREENS (8,14) (S,a67) LET’ 2 S 2 Ss 2 2 a0 “oor aa - ee payout for a win in lines 624 655 and 740 or by changing th odds of RND in line 480. FLASH 4; PAPER 2 GO SUB 5400 IF a$=b$ AND a$=c$ THEN GO 70-859 PRINT AT 19,23;"PAY OUT 1p PAUSE 100, 6a TO 6eas. 6so ag="7" IF as THEN GO_TO_700 PRINT AT 13,442 PAY OUT 15p PRINT AT 19,13; “JACKPOT Poueeo PAY OUT Sep 2S STEP 4 3.37 FLASH 3; WN’ PAPE a Si a 1 a 2 3 2 me 3 2 FLASH 4; PAP “HARD LUCK! 2 2 S 2 3 2 2 e ‘4 3 2 ¢ 2 @ e a oon sangonanan 860 Asa7GKqR oO INK 3; "PRESS 9 S205 ried S400 ONE MAN'S VIEW taking its products — with more coming in — and is moving to ‘new premises in central Liverpool in May. Tumover was £/sm order sales | rising to eimplus in the new Livepootiased Boge, win | MSIE ay eee ie of 0 hee | gh ot eee oes a toh tan has | £7.52_ ©) £2.50, ae. Space ‘mail order operation — and has six new releases out soon, ‘And Tony Baden revealed that he and partner Tony Milner, 24, are linking up with two others to open a tape duplicating pla Mr Baden, 23, said: “twill ‘be completely independen Explaining the ending of mail order, he sid that over the last six months demand for ‘orders by post had fell by $0 per- Defence and a music synthesizer, all for the BBC micro, and an adventure game, The Caste, for the Oricl and the Spectrum. The first four are due out in a for hight with the adventure game due two seeks later. Tony Baden said Bug-Byte had 10 regular freelance programmers who each earned 10 percent of the wholesale price, or a lump Sum of aroun €2,00083,00. Set yet dealer aes were up by |" He ad The dict is ‘perce finding the good programmers. The limiting factor was the | Weng ee Oras. tae at which castes ould be | sre onal improving Ur ‘Sed “one duplny com: |S cominaly,imororing. our peat ancl Gah west ba | Samar, Coo rearing Be eels cere think it’s down to education “We get a lot of good pro- grams sent in for the BBC ‘machine but not for the Spec trum, It seems people who are tum-round, This led to the des: ‘Son to open their own plant Bug-Byte began three years th five 1K programs for the wt a £3 good at programming buy the sae Seta mip, | £004 Prwomming buy Now, sid Mr Bade the partnership sok 30.000 castes Bron fom 3 Bug: Byte Sofware, Freep, Shout 0 dey had 220 deals | Liverpool £3348 Tomething ike te wool shops in Smiths Open | comewst smith branches and micro stores _| slicd by people trained ai the company's Didcot college Mr Binnie is one of four W. Smith merchandise con: trollers, each of them responsible for a segment of the stores’ pro- duct range. He said: “We have had problems over the stock of some Of the leading software titles. Computer shops-within-stores are being opened by W. H.| 4, ‘Smith, Andit has ordered Oric-Is, and Commodore 645 to add 0 its Merchandise controller Stewart Binnie said three stores = one large, one medium and cone small — had been chosen for "The problem is. the pilot computer shops before | duplicating capacity in the U more were opened, (Our orders were using most of ‘AL present, W. H. Smith | god sill eaving us out of stock. sels $.000 Specrums a week. | “" “Sour sales are in the hun- Commodore 61s and 48K Oric- 1, plus BBC micro software, are planned to go on sale next month, Mr Binnie said: “We don't take machines unless the software is available. We are now in the ‘happy situation where the major software houses start writing pro- ‘grams when they know we are ing to stock the machine.” ‘Altogether £Sm-£10m was ‘being spent on the computer side of the business this year, most of it on computers. The shops-within-stores would be a distinctive area, dreds of thousands.” He said: “I's the fastes rowing area of our business, a phenomenon al ofits own. How will it endure? It will continue 10 srow for a long time. “There will be two years of the present growth, the figures are quite extraordinary. There are projections of 1/m computer sales." He did not believe that would be sustained after wo W. H. Smith, 10 New Feter Lane, London ECS Page 8 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 Get outof the cupboard, micro snobs ‘Why do the computer snobs knock poor old Uncle Clive? Having Just announced that his company: has successfully sold tis one ‘millionth computer, surely they must accept him by now? “Afr much experience along the long and winding road of ‘hobby electronics, in which Clive Sinclair had brief forays into hi-fi, writing books, the infamous “black watch" and the low-cost ‘ealeularor, he emerged triumphant on the computer scene in 1980 with the ZX80; With sceptical questions like “how can anyone pro- duce a personal computer for under £1002", Clive Sinclair was ‘relegated 10 the position of an inexperienced entrepreneur in a vers -krown-up and sophisticated market dominated by PETs, Apples and Tandss. ‘No-one would dlsagree that the ZX80 was vers: much 10 est the lower end of the computer market — but that areument could ‘hal be levelled atthe 2X81. Realising the succesful trail laced withthe ZX80, Sinclair Research was quick to introduce the ‘SI. The price was an obvious winner, but i had other finer qualities, 100. OF course it had its bad points — the cassette LOAD and SAVE left a lor to be desired, the Kevboard was difficult 10 wrap ‘your fingers round and the reduced component count made the ‘machine unnecessarily complex. But it sold. And, more important 1h, it Sold (0 the generations, old and young, that had set 10 be “threatened” by computing. Ik made the inaccessible accessible 10 anyone who hod under £100. 1 wouldn't say Clive Sinclair has been original. In some wass, ‘he has followed the lasic marketing approach of Apple, building @ ‘machine with standard specifications and teaving i to others toll in the rest, lke joysticks, software, and soon, unlike Commodore, Tandy and Sharp who are somewhat exclusive about what gets add- ‘ed onto. their machines) Sinclair Research has carved itself an impressive niche. With the ZX Spectrum, the frst whisperings of praise were ‘heard in the more “serious” computer magazines. Hard bitten editors could be seen climbing out of the computer snobbery closet ‘with back-handed compliments such as “mmm, it’s @ moderately fast machine” and “it’s quite easy to produce user defined graphics ‘omit but... You could tell — they quit liked it, and thar was go Jing to take some geting used to. ‘So, could it be that Clive has ousted all the computer snobs from their cosets? Well, maybe not with the Spectrum, ut 1 sup- ‘pose thatthe "2X83" might just cut the ie (and no, I don't know ‘anything more than its development name). Take a look at al the Iresh faces in the “under £100" computer market, and you'l see “Clive Sinclair” stamped on them — which, when you consider what Clive has done for the personal micro, might not be such a ‘bad thing. ‘And what do I think of the Sinclair range of computers? Well, eimbed out of the computer snobbery cupboard a fone time ago, ‘Anyone who can induce computer programming hysteria in a na tin of kids (from seven years old 10 70) must be either avery luck: ‘man or a genius, UF Lever find out which, vow'l be the fist to know. Roger Munford Deputy Editor, ZX Computing ‘© What makes you angry — delighted Nardware or software? We welcome contributions for this weekly col. ‘umn. Send them to: Opinion, Home Computing Weekly. 148 Chafing ross Road, London WC2H OEE. Please include your occupation and sour interes in computing. bout the micro market Push your Sinclair tothe limit ZX81/SPECTRUM UTILITIES NEW LOW PRICE = Al Iesttrough the force field string Hing and eaceman JENN te destroy the menacing NEE atin shin. Sounds.easy? Two ievels of play — normal or Slelda. 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OR SPECTRUM’ ecru ZxcHESs! ZXCHESS ZX1KCHESS ‘Anincredblegame “ag eatured OnITV in tKforonlye295 =< et VOICE CHESS DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO WIN st Sou a A FORTUNE! wow omy £4.95, ALWAYS AHEAD WITH 2X81/SPECTRUM SOFTWARE 1 Protest wher yore sto aor Spacum soso w= on occas te EA 1 ae IRATIG | srccomputng 0.) ~~ 396 JAMES RECKITT AVENUE, OUD HULL N. HUMBERSIDE, | HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983. Page 9 Firefly cycles to success ‘Three sixth-formers wrote Spec ‘rum programs in their bedrooms — and ended up with £170 profit ‘And now they are signing a ‘marketing deal expected to earn them much more. Firefly Software is a partner. ship of Ian Macey, 17, and I6-year-olds Mark Harman and Peter Aked, who live within cyeling distance of each other in Berkshire ‘The idea came to them after they had seen commercially wrt- ten programs. Jan, whose father works for the Meteorological Of- fice in Bracknell, said: sure we could do better. Jan raised the money he needed with parttime work cteosoteing a fence and Peter was @ spare-time labourer. They began work, learning machine code from books, last summer. Mark, who bought his 16K Spec trum from a school friend, joined them at Christmas, ‘Transport for this bedroom industry was bicycles — they cycled to each others’ homes with Spectrums hanging from the handlebars. Al three are each studying for A-levels in the sixth form of a Wokingham comprehensive school, lan said: “Our parents thought we were doing too much, ‘but we think we can get by. They were a bit stunned when we eared so much money, We ‘thought we might get enough to buy a printer." Peter, whose father is an electronics engineer, said: “On the Friday before the ZX Microfair I was up until lam tap- ing my program onto cassettes I ‘bought from W.H. Smith for SOp each.” ‘The three hope they will make enough money 10 allow them to take a year off between school and further education to establish Firefly as a professional The Microfair was the first time their programs had been on sale — two games, Androids and Sword Fight at £4.95, and a co! lection of educational programs ‘on one tape, priced at £3. All run oon the 16K Spectrum, They took £227.90 and made £170 profit after deducting the hire of their show table, £40.20, and other expenses ‘And they reckon they could have sold even more — if they hhad more to sel and if they had been able to take a colour TV to the show. The only television they hhad on their table was black and white, so they put up a large sign saying the programs really were in colour. In all they had 16 offers from shops, which wanted to buy batches of 20 t0 30, and from distributors. They included a Dane, a South Affican, a Belgian — and a Spaniard who tried (0 negotiate through an interpreter. Mark said: “I'm coming to terms with the fact that we may be going somewhere, but I'm try- ing not to build up our hopes. “Our teachers are starting to bbe more sympathetic about late Page 10 HOME COMRUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 ‘From left: Peter, lan and Mark homework now. Our physics teachers have got Spectrums so we gave them copies of the programs.” Firefly Software, Sunnybank, Heath Ride, Wokingham, Berks RGII3QN Youngsters’ programs A new company, Schoolsoft, has been formed with the aim of producing software for infant and junior schoolchildren to run on the BBC model B micro. The first eight programs, costing £5-£10, cover arithmetic, British Isles geography, ‘handwriting and colour sequences, Schoolsoft, 19 Shadwell Grove, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notting- ham Words for the Epson Kuma Computers has brought ‘Out a word processor designed for the tiny printer built into Epson's HX-20 small computer It is called Desk-Master 2 and comes on the micro-cassettes used by the HX-20 and priced at £92.74. Kuma says itis easy 10 use and can also. print larger documents on a full-size external printer. Kuma Computers, 11 York Road, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 1SQ. Home computer stand in the lower shelf slides away Keep your micro tidy, say the people at Zygon Products who hhave produced this specially designed stand for use at home. Costing £65.50, it is made from square stel tubing finshed in black with shelves in slver-grey (or teak laminate and is mounted fn castors. The lower shelf, measuring 26 inches by 19 inches, slides way when notin use. The upper shelf measures 28 inches by 19 in- ches. ‘The company says that the stand, provided with cable tes, has been designed to suit most hhome computers. Soon the basic stand will be extendable to take additional units Zygon Products, 9 Sheredes Drive, Broxbourne, Herts ENII'SLH, Sam ae Pea Gra nA ZA Tere BN Cee eae ere AN SS | M Raa ed OF DEATH THE Neuse oncom Baa oN cs Des ee ec ee ee) . Pennine eens SPACE HOPPER pt can be oe bin oe rm een Pa elit) ae eee aed Mat DPV TAA 8 eee UT aa UU eee) COMPETITION Must be won: aad Sh a ie hae 11's week No.2 in our great £6,200 competition. Will you be one of our lu Ss £ 2 500 115 winners? po worth of software in ur Weare giving a Home Computing Weekly's free, easy to enter competition. It is ext week's ists 100. got together with leading software house Quickslva and arch, makers of the best-selling micros. These are the prizes: * Fifteen 48K ZX Spectrum: rams | and 3 I from Sinclair's range. Each o . | 1 How many stars for Mastermind? 1 + Software worth £2,500 from Quicksilva. Make your choice from a | I range of 39 programs for the Spectrum, VIC-20, ZX81, BBC, Dragon | 2 Whar did Alan Laird write? lis divided into 100 vouchers of £25 each. | i 3 Program 14's name | I I! I 0 do istoanswer the questions in the coupon. Allot | 4 roe mech geo on he fit aching the questions are based on this week's ssue of Home Computing | Weekly. Keep the coupon, with last week's, ina safe place. | § Whar docs Peter Tootl'run? There wil bea final set of questions next week along with details | ‘of how to send inal three coupons. | 6 Memory ication 758i called? Do not send anything to us now. Entries will only be accepted if | they contain all three coupons (not copies). | T Atomic waste, What's hishighest score? This competition is not open t0 the staff of Home Compating | e | Weekly, Argus Specialist Publications, Alabaster Passmore, Sinclair Research and Quickslva, The editor's decision is final and no cor-| There w be space for your name and address on the coupon in next | respondence will be entered into. K 1 Page 12 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 ‘No-one beats our prices’ Melvin Beresford, whose com: pany is bringing out a 16K RAM pack for the Jupiter Ace next has made this promise: if someone comes out with one that’s cheaper we'll cut our price. ‘And that applies to all our pro- ducts.” Mr Beresford, 27, chairman, and managing ‘director of ‘Cheetah Marketing, expects his £24.95 Jupiter Ace RAM pack to be ready by April or before. He said: “I think it will be the first — and certainly the cheapest. He said he kept prices down by paying his sub-contractor's tooling costs of £4,000 to £5,000 for the casing and by using ‘automated production. Some ‘companies, he said, bought ready-made cases; his were specially designed for the job. ‘At present Cheetah sells two RAM packs for the ZX81 — 16K for £19.75 and 64K at £48.75 He is hoping for an April launch for a 32K RAM pack for the Spectrum at around £30, Which would mean customers ‘could add it to a 16K Spectrum (£125) and get a 48K model at £20, kes. Cheetah Marketing is Mr Beresford, his wife Lesley, 26, land the company secretary, 10 sales staff and a marketing ex- cutive. Mr Beresford, formerly {in production in an electronics company, formed Cheetah four ‘months ago. Cheetah Marketing, 359 The Strand, London W2R OHS. New for the BBC BBC software specialists Acorn- soft has five new games to launch, this mont ‘And one of them, according to. managing director David Johnson-Davies, has beaten everyone at the company. Al five are priced at £9.95) and fun on the BBC model B. ‘They are: Snooker, a 1wo- player game including ‘features Tike top and bottom spin, Missile Base, Starship Command and Draughts/Reversi, which use joysticks, and an adventure ‘game, Countdown to Doom, Tt is Draughts/Reversi_ of| which Mr Johnson-Davies said: “It’s beaten everyone here.” He also said Starship Com. ‘mand was totally original: “The| attacking ships behave in an tellgent way — they gang up on you.” ‘Castle of Riddles, an adven- ture game relased last month, in-| cludes a £3,000 competition’ for ‘hich the closing date is March 31 Acornsoft, 44 Market Hill, Cambridge CB2 3NI. Computer talk in the nursery Just for children, Electroplay has introduced a £50 micro called My Talking Computer. thas just 30 one-word keys, its own small colour display screen, runs on batteries or mains power and has plugin program ‘modules with names lke Spelling, Music and Languages. Electroplay says it has been designed as a child’s frst com- puter and is suitable for ‘youngsters of three and upwards. It says “hello” when tuned on ‘and then the child presses keys as instructed Ina chauvinist announce- ment, the company says itis “a computer for kids and mothers. ...mothers will not feel they have to be computer boffins to feel at ease with it or use it with their children, Electropiay, producers of ass Me, “the first talking elec tronic game”, says that My Talk- ing Computer has attracted ‘orders of more than 25,000 from ‘America and potential larger orders for France. ‘The company says My Talk ing Computer was designed and assembled in England. Electroplay, first floor, 93 High Street, Esher, Surrey KYI0 90A My Talking Computer — speaking (0 children What Katy did for Dad i Lew Graham and daughter Katy — facing up to programming Katy Graham, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, loves making faces for her dad. She designed the faces on two of Lew Graham’s programs for children of four-six —agrin ‘or a grimace on one and an alien with meaningful antennae ‘on another: Mr Graham, who runs Cottage Software with his wife Margaret, is a maths teacher at ‘a comprehensive school and has ering degree. He said: “"Katy has been very useful at finding bugs. She designed the faces which appear fas rewards when children get the answers right. 1 think it's important that a child gets a pat fon the back.”” Katy, who is studying for Orlevels, said: “He kept mak- ing fuss about the shape ofthe Isn't it unusual for a girl 10 bbe writing programs? Katy said firmly: “I think it's totally irrelevant whether you're & gitl ‘or a boy. I just enjoy it.” Now Katy, who has a brother, Andrew, aged 11, and a four-year-old sister, Ruth, has ‘written a program for herself t0 help with her Latin declensions. ‘Mr Graham set up his part: time business six months ago and now has four educational ‘cassettes, each with two pro- ‘grams, and a fruit machine ‘game on sale, all for the 32K BBC micro. ‘Would he eventually have to make it a full-time job? He said: "I would not like to be out Of teaching entirely because it keeps you in touch. “1 write the programs the living room. When the fami- ly want to watch TV they have {to use the black and white set in the kitchen. Mr Graham's latest_pro- grams are Elem-Add aid Elem- Sub, both on the same cassette for £7.50. Cottage Software, Heather Cot- tage, Selly Hill, Whitby, North Yorkshire. New calc for Spectrum Chartered accountant David, Robinson has brought out £9.95 Spreadsheet program for the 48K Spectrum, called Flexi ale He says these features distinguish it from the others: user control over the number of rows and columns, formulae ‘ean be changed at any time, full ‘manual designed for first-time ‘users, on-screen prompting of commands and full maths capability, mot just add, sub- tract, divide and multiply. Mr Robinson, 33, who runs Saxon Computing part- time with his wife Denise from their home on Humberside, said: “1 wrote it for myself to| use originally.”” Mr and Mrs Robinson, who have children of six and eight, formed Saxon as partners, 11 months ago. ‘They are soon to put on sale consolidation and report generator modules, at £6.95 for the two on one tape, which will work with Flexicale-generated files. Saxon Computing, 3. St Catherines Drive, Leconfteld, Beverly, Humberside. HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983, Page 13 A NEW SERIES FOR FIRST TIME “Learning to Use” is a new series of books which introduces newcomers to the most widely used micros in the marketplace. The books assume absolutely no knowledge about computers and the reader is shown even the most fundamental operations such as “switching on” and “loading a program”. The books lead the reader through simple programming and then on to graphics, with several programs which show how to’achieve pictures and even animation! The user-friendly approach is consistent throughout the text — not only are program listing clearly shown, but in many cases, a photograph js included to show what the program looks like when actually loaded and run! All books in the series are £5.95 (incl. postage). 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Address ‘Make cheaves payable toNewtech Puishing Lis Vencose my cheque for £ : Please debit my Access Signed — number (TT TTT TT TT ETL TTT ose NOW AVAILABLE Ploase sondme aang tne bePETConptr [Largo arte 2 Copa allat€5.95 each annie see BC Mower [Laing toe eZ Compt seleennge pins SllmanigebeXSpecram ”—teegto Ue teDrgens2 To be published Kae Please reserve for me, ond send to me on publication my copyies of allates 95each [lawn i el ago eT. {inel. post ®& packing) aga eye copyiies "amigo ere ing ie BeConmadoet r Page 14 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 18 March 1983, ‘The VZ200, alias the TX800 — ignore the name on the panel Richard Abbott — importing two new computers Texet, best known for its pocket calculators, is challenging Sinclair's Spectrum with a Hong Kong import. Called the VZ200, it will be fon sale here in May-June in John Menzies, Texet's owners, and, through importers Leisure-Zone, in stores lke the House of Fraset group. Texet will be calling it the TX8000 — it has 8K of RAM. Price will be £98, but this may well be discounted by some comes with a rubber-ke keyboard, BASIC, eight sereen colours, ‘single-key commands, user-defined graphics and a range (of add-ons, some to follow later. ‘They will include a plug-in 16K RAM module at £39.95, with 4K later at £49.95, a joystick for £14.95, light pen and ‘4 £99 printer. A Centronics-type adaptor is also due. Texet will also be offering a monitor made in Taiwan, Leisure-Zone managing director Richard Abbott said three software houses were writing for it and 40 programs would be available at launch, in- cluding games, educational, home, small business, scientific and technical. There would also be a simple spreadsheet. He said: think its market TT by Sinclair — the hobbyist, the student and the enthusiast” I trum. Leisure-Zone is also import- ng another computer, called the veativision, also from Hong Kong. and made by the san company. Modular in design, it will cost £99.95, is aimed at the whole family and will ran VZ200, software ‘A cassette recorder at £39.95 — it will nt work with others — plugs into the side and so do memory modules of 16K, at £39.95, and 64K, A floppy disc drive and acoustic coupler are due later. Joysticks will cost £19.95, A Sinclair spokesman said: “We concede that there is room for newcomers in a growing market, Our share ofthat market may decline but our sales will ‘continue to rise “We have yet to see a serious head-to-head challenger materialise against us.” brought out, in 1971, the first pocket calculator — three weeks before Sinclair. Mr McCormack “We will send a writ to anyone who says different.” Leisure-Zone, The Old Malthouse, 5 The Broadway, (Old Amersham, Bucks HP7 OHL. Texet, Texet House, Earl Road, Commercial Avenue, ‘Stanley Green Industrial Estate, Cheadle Home, (Cheshire SK8 6PT. More Dragons on the way Experts are already at work on a replacement for the best selling Dragon 32, just seven months after the launch, fs the one that’s been established I is one of several projects boeing tackled by Dragon Data's Téstrong_ technical develop- rent department at the com pany's new Port Talbot plant But sales boss Richard Wadman, 44, said: see the Dragon 32 lasting for some con- siderable time — I wouldn’t be Surprised if we were still selling iein 1988, ‘When we bring out @ replacement depends on what the opposition does andthe way the market goes. We've got to consider a machine to come for the bot tom end of the market and that’s on the drawing board.” Dragon Data's 138 workers are now turning out 20,000 Iicros a week and $5,000 have been sold since August. Mr Wasman reckons they need 10 produce 30,000 a month to keep up with demand. He said: “Demands grow. ing all the time. There's going to be a struggle forall computer manufacturers 10 satisfy de- mand in the next couple of years, “Most of our purchasers are first-time buyers, with afew {ade-ups, so we seem t0 be pro- ducing a fot of new business. “Soon the micro will take its place inthe home lke the TV fof the hi-fi. The requirement of the user wil be heavily software biased. They will require it 10 do something for them so we heed more plug-in facilites, tke eeronic shopping, banking and databases “F'm not happy with the amount of software at present but we are improving our range quite rapidly’ in the next few months. After all, we only started in August.” yA Dragon Data's logo reflects its ‘Welsh background Mr Wadman, a bearded ex- lecturer in. statistical com puting, said: “We are now beginning to establish a healthy export market in Europe. “We are also negotiating with people in the States. We hhave been talking to a large distributor and manufacturers, I would prefer to make it here for export, but there are price advantages in having it made uunder licence.” These are the products Dragon Data already has lined up: © A dise drive at £250-£275 10 bbe launched next month. One drive with controller will have a Si4in single-sided 280K floppy. ‘And there will be space in the same box for a second drive, costing around £200. Other ‘companies are also bringing out dise drives for the Dragon. ragon 32 —“*,.. still selling in 1985" ‘A.£25 tape recorder, brought in and specially adapted. Due for release at the end of next month, Mr Wadman said it was being marketed following de- mand. © Boards with 64K of RAM and a multi-tasking disc operating system, called OS9, also next month. © A new model for more serious users called the Dragon 128, priced at around £400 and for launch in August @ A top-range model, designed as a system and costing between £1,200 and £2,000. This will be for the professional user and is scheduled for September or October. ‘© Two graphics printers, using 4gin paper for 40 columns and 8in rolls for 80 columns, costing about £150 and using tiny ball- point colour pens. A release date has not yet been set. Dragon is forecasting a tur- nover of £35m-£45m this year, with profits of £3m-£4m, which ‘would make it one of the UK’s biggest micro companies, Turn- ‘over to the end of December was £3m, giving a profit of £200,000 to £300,000. Dragon Data, Kenfig Industrial Estate, Margan, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan SA13 2PE, HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 Page 15, —E—EErEAaAEAaEEE EE eee HARDWARE REVIEW Colour print at a budget ‘This attractive litle printe which arrives well packed in polystyrene, measures just '8%4in square and 3in high at its ‘maximum. But you get a lot of value for your £149. There should be no pro. bblems connecting it to a wide range of micros with standard parallel or serial outputs. One dealer told me the printer, call ed the CGP-115 by makers Tan. dy, was very popular with BBC Setting up is easy. All that's needed is a mains plug for the separate power supply and the appropriate cable to con- nnect the printer to the com- puter. To get the printer going you have to set switches to Select the relevant input — serial or Centronics parallel — the default for 40 or 80 ‘characters per line and load the 4¥4in paper roll and pens. A roll of paper and six special ballpoint pens, three black and one each of red, green and blue, are included. All this is’ straightforward and well explained inthe 40-page manual which is sup. plied. en you ich te pes | Sa" (on it makes an alarming buzzing wise for three oF four seconds. his had me rushing tothe phone to call the Tandy man to check if it was about to go up in smoke, Fortunately itis just part of its start-up routine. assume itis vibrating the pens to help them to start quickly The next thing it does is 10 raw four little boxes, one in each of the four colours. Having made sure that everything is working properly the printer is now ready for use. Using the printer for text is easy. The output is simply sent to the printer using the normal ‘command for your computer (*LPRINT” on the TRS-80) ‘The number of characters per line be varied from the default ily Page 16 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 value of 80 or 40 characters per line under soft control. The range is from 80 to produce letters which, although only about Imm high, are still quite easy to read, to ‘one. Yes, Ido mean one character per lin. "The characters for cacf size Of output are all in the same proportion, so that fs the number per line decreases, the height of the characters increases. This is different to the normal method of working for dot matrix printers which normally double the width of characters but keep the height the same. Plotting is controlled by a series of commands that enable the pen to be moved from point to point with or without drawing Aline. The destination is specified by giving displacements, either relative (from the present loca HARDWARE REVIEW tion), or absolute (ffom the cur- | even upside down. faced 10. produce. graphs. and.| Facts panel rently defined origin), Autractively priced and ver-| diagrams. ‘Tandy CGP-115 printer £149 satile, the printer's main |” Interfacing to different com- | Paper (the roils) 89 The manual explains each | drawback for general.use is its | puters shouldn't present any pro- | Pens (pack of three all black, or command wel, but theres alack | Speed, only 12 characters per se | blems, especially as i supports | one each of re, green and biue) of more advanced examples, | cond when printing. But st the | both serial and parallel inputs. £1.69 especially inthe use of variables | Price there i litle competion | However, none Of the connes- | Inputs: Centronics parallel and ‘o specify the various actions the | and it should appeal to a wide | tions to various pins onthe input | RS-232 serial (600 baud, 7 bis, 2 Drinter should take. This is a pity fi o paso yeni oe eat | S22 s 2s it wil be the basis of most of | ‘ARES Of ws: not Just those who," sockets are sh 1p bits) the work that the printer. will undertake. Aw simple examples, sch a how to draw a cre, or some feomaric pattems would have ben very helpful especialy 10 the noc-malbematical wer, ‘There avery nice program in the manual that dae ple chart and colours in the sectors, and also produces sine and cosine curves. However, it contin. a couple of bugs, and a lot more REMarks would have made i much dearer which sections of the program are carrying out the Wisi w+ various actions. Qn asx8? 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We fox quien er WR, casi ols, a ENHANCED SOFTWARE fo Iaegone ining” Al pres ecu VAT & cry. NM compete he Ore Sip fx YOUR special scat eee eer fare ve sionaTuRe Aooness SoveY TRACE Devon Toys 98 ‘ade engin TOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 Page 17 Our story begins with a@ 2X80 in a back room... Quicksilva is one of the country's fastest growing software houses. Paul Liptrot traces its growth and talks to the people who run the company about their plans It's almost a computer classic, but Nick Lambert really did start his business in a back room. Then it spread to two rooms and finally took over most of the house, Now Nick, 32, is managing director and major shareholder of Quickslva, the Southampton: based software house with a catalogue of 39 tapes by the end of the month and a. tumover predicted to reach £Sm-£10m next year. Nick spent £90 on a 1K ‘ZX0 and decided to make his ‘own 3K memory board for it in stead of waiting for the Sinclair Research version. He said: "I thought I could fel it so 1 took space ina magazine, That was my first toe in the water. In thtee to four months I sold about 400 of them, at £40 each compred with Sinclair's price of £62. “Twas an arcade games freak and no-one seemed to be providing them so, with Rodney Zaks book in one hand, T wrote Defenda and sold it at £5.50. 1 was also selling a motherboard and a sound board.” John Hollis, now Quick- silva’s technical "director, was ‘working in a components shop ‘when Nick met him while buying bits and pieces for a synthesier project he found in a magazine, He never did finish it And Nick met Mark Eyles, now production director, through a friend who said Mark was good at soldering. Quickslva became a limited ‘company in April last year and the staff is: Sean de Bray, technical admistrator; Caroline Hayon, sales and marketing; Rod Cousens, international sales manager; Susan Clifton, secretary and Maureen Twine, post Now Quicksilva fas been trading for 18 months and has of- fices on four floors overlooking a park. The company has a catalogue of 23 tapes, nearly all ‘machine code games, for the Spectrum, ZX81, VIC20, plus a character generator forthe Atari. "This month another 16 are being launched, including pro- srams for the BBC micro and the Dragon. Among them will be a | doing our pricing we look at how word processor and a music pro- | much it's going to cost 10 pro- gram Prices range from £3.98 to | duce and at the prices the others £7.95 and up to £14.95 for | are charging and we try to artive specials at a realistic figure Mark said: “When we are | “When we started we were Alan Laird — he wrote John Hollis — technical director Munchees for the ZX8: Martin Walker — wrot Magic Window charact generator for the Atari Page 18 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 1 fand writer of Time Gate te the ler Sean de Bray — Quicksilva’ technical administrator charging £5.50 for a ZX81 pro gram and’ copying it ourselves. Now the same program would cost £3.95 because we are selling more of them. ‘We have tried to keep our prices down to the lowest which are reasonable, If we were selling ‘a program for the ZX81 and then brought it out for the Atari we ‘would have to charge a different price because there would be ‘more to it “The machine that I person ally like the look of isthe Lynx, ‘but we will be producing for all the personal computers. That's ‘our plan. We are just like book publishers, publishing. the work ‘of mainly freelance program- “Bvery two months our tur- rover has doubled — that’s the kind of rate we're growing at. It's absolutely fantastic “We've probably got the dubious distinetion of being rip- ‘ed off in almost every country in the world. Now we've got a large firm of accountants with offices Jn the countries to which we ex- ‘Among the countries Quick silva sells to are Iceland, Chile, ‘Austrailia, Holland, Denmark, Israel, America, South Africa, Spain, Belgium and Greece. ‘Mark said: “The number of people who can write programs is finite, but there’s lots of them, Many of them can write well, but they ate not so good at ideas so ‘we give them the ideas to improve their games. "We are going to be holding conferences for our programmers — well rent a room in a hotel somewhere — and give. them loads of games ideas. And we're going to produce a newsletter for them too, “Some of them are sill at school and soon they wil be earn- ing more than their parents.” He gave an example of what would happen if someone. sent them a tape for the ZX81. “The market is going 10 disappear before long because of the Spectrum, so we would say: “This is a really nice program, ‘Could you write it for the Spec- “We would provide him Se 7 software houses, but there. will still be the litle guy in his back room, The gap between big and small will widen, “We want to” stay fairly with @ Spectrum, a monitor, and an assembler and a program of routines called Sub Lib. He would pay us Out of his first royalties. That's the kind of sup- port we give." small in numbers of full-time Quicksiva’s programmers, | staff so we can react quickly 10 mostly freetance, get 25 per cent | market trends.” Of the cover price of each ‘pro- ‘gram, excluding VAT. ‘Among them is Alan Laird, a 1S-year-old Ayreshire schoolboy now taking his ‘Orlevels, who wrote Munchees for the ZX81. Another i Martin Nick expects Quickdiva’s turnover for the year ending this month to be £% to im. And nest year he predicts a turnover cf £5m-£10m, in the UK alone. He said “One of the things Tywant to do really soon is take a Walker who Wrote Magic Win- | couple of months off and write a dow, a character really good progrs generator for John Hollis the Atari at ‘myself ave his home "in Wiltshire Mark this. friendly rivalry and he's said: ttn think dbo fat will pnt soon be just a handful of Quicksilva’s logo \ Tango Foxtrot 01 Using your skill, locate the airstrip with the radar ‘scanner, fly your aircraft through hazardous ‘crosswinds and air pockets to land safely. Watch your fuel; watch your artificial horizon; be sure you are level on final approach. Full colour, hi-res graphics, 3D and sound. £6.50 inc. p&p > with the holds, turn your £5 stake into£10 and beat DRAGON 32 ..::010: MRC Air combat and ground strike, “joystick” controlled sights cannon fire and bomb release. Full colour hicres graphics 3D and sound £6.50 inc. p&p. Fruit Compulsive, addictive, fruit machine. Using your skill the system. Hi-res graphics and sound. £4.98 inc p&p Look and Learn Educational picture recognition. Hi-res graphics, text and colour. Age 3-10yrs £4.98 inc. 4 p. Pontoon ‘Super Hi-res graphics, full colour definition and card display. Fascinating, absorbing £4.98 inc p&p. DRAGON and ORIC “JUNIPER” word processor, comprehensive edit facilities, menu and cursor driven QUARK DATA P.O. BOX 61, Swindon, Wilts. Tel (0793) 40661 I Piease supply 1 1 [Cheque for total amount encloses pName Address HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 Page So you think you can write? Prove it to me and you may be able to join ‘our team of contributors. We are looking for: © articles on using home computers. You must be able to give specific examples, if necessary with programs. Have you discovered a new aspect or a new way of using a known feature? Your ideas are what we want. © Program reviews. We need to test all forms of software — household and educational as well as games © Tests of hardware and add-ons. For these you have to have a good knowledge of computers and peripherals If you feel you can meet our standards, write to me (don't phone). Please name your micro, plus memory, give your occupation or training and, if under 21, your age. include a daytime and home phone number if you can. Paul Liptrot, Home Computing Weekly, 145 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H OEE. ERSOFT PERIPHERALS AND SOFTWARE HOME ACCOUNTS An accounts peogram specsiclly designed forthe home wer. Te contains many features which FRENZY The object of this game is 10 destroy as many obstacles as pombe, You are in contol of ¢ Lind speeder in an alien ity ‘Running over various objects such as dog fie Rydeants and people. Your speeder has no res and you must dodge ant matter blocks Fast reactions and Slate required us your vehicle ‘is ister and fier For Mode "A" of" Miro PRICE: £5.75 ‘make tthe bet aeounts package rently availble for the BBC ‘Microcomputer Home Accounts is a compre hensive program allowing total contol ofalldata Full documen {ation is supplied making ieasy to leam and simple to use be forthe Model" Micro PRICE: £12.50 POTENTIOMETER JOYSTICKS Single or tin joystick unit for direct connection to Model 'B Allows true analogue’ overeat vie one or two high quality dial 83s potentiometer driven joysticks, The unit is encaed in aa elegant Injection moulded cae with two push buttons for use with Adval (0) Tecomes complete with fll instructions and demonstration progras ONE STICK UNIT 2790 TWO STICK UNIT £3620 SEND CHEQUE OR POSTAL ORDER PAYABLE TO: PERSOFT, FREEPOS} %, WEST YORKSHIRE Audiogenic Ltd, manufacturers and distributors of cassette and cartridge programs for the VIC, Dragon and Atari home computer: Available direct or via the Nationwide dealer network. Page 20 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983 Give yourself a BIG idea SS TS TE Try this for size... Jeremy Riggs’ programming |.ci0r ok" peocune tip for the BBC micro Seton BBC micro, a By changing the leter Cin aDgesbig line 70 to 1, 2. or 3 you can have best praie characters which are eight characters high, 16 characters high or 24 characters in height. The program will run in any. mode, but remember 10 fhange the tab positions. In MODE 7 size three character will take up the whole screen ee FORE=O 10 EAC) NERS (E) NELTNELT ‘The program, which gives ese rence a demonstration of sizes, could sie ocatrngih STE aE) be used as part of, say, a game. one The procedure seis up the ARCS Father (ABC, 2) eight strings MEMS(x) which: eeioueey are used to draw the large 26 25,235,283 3 2,285,285, 25,25, 4 Im mens) LDL 54 Fomcet 10 SkLL8 oe FOR Ste 10 Levusiedsoasis,si,1» Te Frtcatings Tes a) 149 48oFaconvert AEC HENS MM @ THEN AND 5>@ THEN AND B<42 THEN THEN CLS THEN LET s=o " THEN LET S=2 THEN COPY. s=yaL "se" BRess ANY KEY TO SPx 189 F 328 Let ses-22 356 GF. ace ane, B perunn 200 PRINT “CORRECT” PROQFe 28 orig ine tes oF he om. 250 LET Kekes sewer ent lias bad oe te Pred oP rat a 2 You have just fallen down an | faint hearted. 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THE ANSWER NT A 5 PAUSE 3999 157 CLS 160 NEXT F 170, PRINT 18 PRINT "YOU SCORED#":Z+ HOUT OF 10" Page 28 HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983, SOFTWARE Dragons Latr and Foust MONSTERS IN HELL JUST THREE OF THE AMAZING NEW MACHINE CODE GAMES FROM SOFTEK FOR THE ZX SPECTRUM MONSTERS IN HELL 14 it wasn't actually a nightmare, then it! certainly seemed like one... trapped in Hell with the consuming flames below me being ch vampire ‘monsters through 2 mad maze of ladders and platforms. But 1 had Holy Power on my side, and hammer which could magically create holes the only way to kill these crazy monsters seemed to be to make them fall toa lower level! But just then, the Mad Monk sent his Ghouls after me... Any 2X Spectrum, MILLIPEDE Mili the Millipede seemed indestructable; as soon as I shot # part of her, the rest of her just kept on coming! Bur'T vas fasters she wouldn't get to me.+. just then Sid the Spider appeared causing me to swerve and lose iny aim: And what's this!?? Scorpl the Scorpion dive Bombing me with her indestructable fleas which leave tmore of those blasted mushrooms to spoil my aim! Quite the most delectable version of the arcade favourite for any ZX Spectrum. COSMIC SWARM OK, 1 accept that I'm to blame. I was warned against entering the Proxima Centauri Sector without am escort find now I'm in the midst of » swarm of alien egg-iike forms, collision seeming imminent I fire, they break open revealling strange alien types which fly wildly around T'fire again as if my life depended upon it = then two of the forms fuse into a single mutant which chases me! One of the most original shoot-em-up space, games to appear. Any 2X Spectrum. Rieans ALL GAMES £5.95 SOFTTK. 25 CROXTED ROAD LONDON SOFTWARE Foust Its taken America by storm - now its avallable for your 2X Spectrum! In thie amazing new arcade game you ride an ostrich and Joust with the Dark Lords” on theit bursards in a fantasy land where anything can happen ~ and it usually does. You Control your mounts wing-flap and direction of nd furious game of wits ‘Avallable very. soon! flight in this fast Any 2X Spectrum Bragons Lair 1 thought it would be easy... explore, the Dragon's Lairy find the legendary Cryatal of poner and be gone before he knew of what was happening. More fool t, for he war there all right waltog for mer and that inp which followed me everywhere. with fo other seeming purpose than to steal wy compass without which T'was well and trucly lost!) The ultimate Mare-Adventure game for the 48K Spectrust, FIREBIRDS They swoop, they dive, they turn figures of eight, ‘The most amazing Hi-Res shoot-em-up arcade type game to come out in ages! Can you survive? Any 2X" Spectrum. SOFSYS We're not only famous for our games... Write for Details of Solays, consisting of « User Definable Key program, our Sofcom Compiler, our Sofmon Disassembier, our Sofsem Assembler and our unique Sotkite 1 & 2 utility and graphics kits. You'll be amazed, they are inovative and easily the best available HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY IS March 1983 Page 29 Save your country from Radioactive wreckage is falling | ring 20 points and the diamond all over your country, glowing | is worth 30 points nieces iste However, “you have to How many pieces can you | destroy all the pieces. If any of stop before your five lives are |them touch the ground, you lost? Jose a life. When all your lives ‘To niove your ship use the | © Ht the ame is ovr. cursor keys, up for left and | Conversion to most other ‘across for right. Key {7 fires the | machines should be fairly easy laser gun. Three different pieces | Wreckage and your ship are drop from the top of the screen. | Poked on) to the screen, 0 ‘The bar is worth 10 points, the | addresses should be changed. 2 RENM INITIALISE ® 5 Ve53248:ANSS1 : BNSANNE+7 :CS=948 9 REM COLOUR ® i@ As="Seeemasman 20 PRINT"D"," CATCH COSMUSH” 3@ PRINT," BY DAVID REES” 40 Leo: xa16:S=0 $Q BCQ)=73:BC1)mB77BC2)=90 6@ ACO=O:AC1 mO:ACZI=e 69 REMM COLOUR # 7@ POKE V+32)@:POKE V+33,0 8 PRINT" MMDINPRESS ANY KEY TO START" 9@ GET BS: IF BS="" THEN 96 1@6 PRINT"S) SCORES", , "LIVES LE 118 FOR ROW=1 TO 23 119 REM COLOUR # Page 30, HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 15 March 1983, (SS Just you and your laser gun can rescue us from the radioactive threat in this Commodore 64 program by David Rees How: high the code. have fever, on machines with resolution screens, such a8 Spectrum or the BBC 0, Printing is easier, unless ‘want to resort to machine All lines involving colour REMS before them so they be changed or removed easily. Monochrome computers have Ho. 120 125 138 140 158 159 168. 178 186 197 198 199 208 22e 240 258 ho need of them so lines 180 ean probably be left The program can be made { fit any screen width. AN is the sereen width variable. For screens of less than 32 columns, AN= 15, For 32 to 63 column screens, AN =31 and for higher values "AN=63. Finally, SC should equal the number of seteen columns My highest score is 910. Good luck — and keep your head down, PRINTMIDS

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