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JANUARY 1986

VOLUME 2

NUMBER 4

FEATURES

Editor.

Stuart Cooke

• Sounding Off

Assistant Editor:

Marie Curry

The Sound Buggy reviewed. Make noise on your C64_

• Programmer of the Year

The hunt to ﬁnd Your Commodore's answer to Einstein

• On Cartridge - Turbo 50_

Robcom's Turbo 50 cartridge under the microscope.

• Froggy

Turn to our cover feature and design a game.

• At Random_

Disks driving you mad? Find out about random access.

• Missives

Our new regular letters page for your opinions.

• Personal Column_

A close look at Commodore's PC 20.

Advertisement Manager:

Mike Segrue

Advertisement Copy

Control:

Laura Champion

Group Editor:

Dave Bradshaw

Group Managing

Editor:

Wendy Palmer

Managing Director:

Peter Welham

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• Build a Better Basic

Your Basic gets still bigger and better.

• Top Draw 7 4

Allen Webb continues to brighten up your graphics.

• Programming Projects

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Garry Marshall with another brain teaser.

• Reliable Routines

Your Commodore is a monthly

magazine appearing on the ﬁrst

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• Mach 3 9 0

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• Game of the Month_

• Sense of Adventure_

• Teacher's Pet

• Communications Corner

• Action Replay

• Scratch Pad

• Listings 8 0

• Easy Entry 8 3

COMPETITIONS

The contents of this publication

including all articles, designs,

pl ans, drawings and programs

and all copyright and other

intellectual property rights

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Al l rights conferred by the Law

of Copyright and other

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Company. 1986 Argus

Specialist Publications Limited.

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GAMES AND UTILITIES

• List Aid

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STATEMENTS

In Touch

rate is 3.5p per minute. Cold Net service

charges go up to 2.5p per minute for 300

baud and 3p per minute for 1200 baud. All

other charges remain the same.

British Telecom's Multi-User

Dungeon (MUD) has been delayed

although Telecom says it will be up and

running before the end of 1985, All

existing subscribers are guaranteed

substantial free credit for an initial test

period.

The MUD spectacular will now take

place in the spring.

The delay has caused frustration to

MUD organisers, according to Mike

Anderiesz, Launch Manager: "MUD is

unique - there hasn't been a program of

this size or complexity before. Even so the

problems we're experiencing are the kind

of last minute bugs every programmer has

to deal with. As far as we're concerned the

quality of the ﬁnished product is more

important than the deadline."

Prestel has announced a growth of 44

per cent in the past year with more than

one million pages a day being accessed

and 100.000 electronic mail messages per

week.

Areas which have attracted new users

to Prestel are travel, insurance, micro-

computing, city information, farming

information, home banking, shopping

and messaging.

Touchline

WELL, HERE WE ARE, THREE ISSUES INTO

the merger between Your Commodore

and Your 64.

Letters have been ﬂowing in from

readers - some of them good, some of

them bad. Some people are saying that

the 'new' magazine is not Your 64 and that

we should re-launch Your 64 as a maga-

zine in its own right. Well, quite simply

Your Commodore is not Your 64, it was

never intended to be. However, what we

did aim to do was to bring together what

we considered to be the best parts of both

magazines. In these ﬁrst few issues we

have brought you the games reviews and

Scratchpad from Your 64. Quite shortly,

you should be seeing the re-emergence

of Arcade Ace and a number of other

features.

Quite a few people have asked us what

has happened to the 'Cheats and POKEs'

section from Your 64. Our view on this is

that if you're going to buy a game, the fun

is solving the puzzles set by the

programmer. If you're going to cheat why

buy it?

This doesn't mean that we aren't open

to suggestions. Please let us know what

you would like to see in the magazine and

we'll see what we can do. Not only have

we had mail from people with gripes but

we have had an equal number of letters

complementing us on the latest issues.

One kind reader was over the moon

about John McHales character editor and

said that "It's material like this that

compels us to keep buying your superb

magazine". Thank you very much.

Another reader said that "Now my

brother loves to read the magazine as

well". Well, we do try to cater for all tastes.

A couple of people have said that Your

64 just covered the CM and that we

should do the same. Well I'm afraid our

title is Your Commodore and as such we

try to cover all the machines that

Commodore produces.

you •o ave any commen s en

please write to us and make sure that you

tell us what you do like.

Stuart

MODEM MANIA IS SWEEPING THE

country and communications services like

Prestel and Micronet are taking full

advantage of this growing enthusiasm by

adding more and more facilities to their

existing systems.

Micronet's efforts to encourage new

users to buy modems by enticing them

with ﬂ O vouchers when they purchase

them from Pace, Miracle or Modem

House, is now being stepped up to

include Xyllyx.

John Barton, marketing manager for

Xyllyx said: "This move towards the

consumer end of the industry marks a

new phase for us and is a reﬂection of the

increasing importance of the communi-

cations ﬁ eld as we see it. Particularly in

terms of the home user."

There's also news from the Micronet

Gallery where queues of potential

exhibitors have formed. Micronet has a

plot afoot to weed out those naughty

exhibitors who are not using or editing

their pages sufﬁciently.

From 1 December, Gallery is repriced

to 99p per frame for four months. Each

edit now costs 10p. Existing exhibitors can

be transferred to the new pages for a

block charge of 99p.

According to Micronet, it is hoped

that the changes will mean that only

'serious' exhibitors will book!

Pace Micro Technology is encourag-

ing communications enthusiasts to take to

their boats by sponsoring the Round

Britain Race on Micronet 800. Entrants

who buy a Nightingale modem will

qualify for the Pace prize of a return trip to

New York for two, plus six nights in a top

hotel and MO spending money.

Micronet's publicity man, Peter

Probert commented: "It's good to see a

modem company giving out to the people

who made them as important as they are

i.e. the customers."

Telecom Cold increased its charges

from 1 December. Connect time charges

for standard rate now cost lip per minute

(0800-1900 Monday to Friday) and cheap

Telecom Gold, 60-68 Thomas St, London

5E1 3OU

MUD, BT New Information Services,

Wellington Hse, Upper St Martins Lane,

London WC2H 9DL

Micronet 800,8 Herbal Hill, London EC1R

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Prestel, BT Centre, Floor A3, 81, Newgate

St, London ECM 7AI

Generally Speaking

SIRCAL INSTRUMENTS IS ABOUT TO RE-

lease a complete cartridge and erasure

system for the CM,

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Included in the system is a program-

mer unit, a mains powered UV eraser unit,

one operating system cartridge and one

8K programmable cartridge.

According to the makers, the system

allows even a novice user to create his

own cartridge based software in either

Basic or m/c.

The UV eraser pack allows complete

erasure of cartridges, and the pack

features an automatic timer and safety

interlock to prevent leakage of ultraviolet

light.

The pack is called the Epilog-1

Cartridge System and costs 044.95 mail

order. Additional cartridges with 8K

EPROM are £17.95 or £44.95 for three.

Meanwhile in adventure land, Ian

Banff has walked off with E250 as winner

of Print'n'Plotter Products' Adventure

Planner competition. The competition

was based on the use of the Adventure

Planner Pad, produced by Print'n'Plotter

which enables adventure game players to

plan their progress while playing on a

computer.

Stuart Cooke, our esteemed editor,

was privileged enough to present a

cheque for E1000 to Andrew Boosey from

Hayes, whose game Pony Express is to be

used in a future Games Creator Collection

by Mirrorsoft. Stuart is the guy in the

middle wearing a tie who looks very

reluctant to give up the money!

Want a free poster? Well, you can get

one from Level 9 if you send off to the

address below. The Level 9 poster has a

picture of the new game The Worm in

Paradise on the front and on the back it

has details of Level 9 adventures. Don't

forget to send an s.a.e. or you won't get

one.

If you think software piracy is bad in

this country then go to Italy. There are no

independent software houses there

because software piracy is so widespread.

Pirates come to Britain, buy the top

selling games and return home, where

they pass the tapes on to code crackers

who break in, translate the title screens

into Italian and then duplicate them. The

games are sold at incredibly low prices on

compilation tapes costing as little as f4 for

as many as 16 games!

A leading Italian magazine publisher,

Gruppo Editorial Jackson, is intending to

prosecute the pirates and the group is

being backed by British software houses.

Touchline

Sircal Instruments. 11 Southﬁ elds Ct,

Sutton, Surrey SM1 3HJ

Print'n'Plotter, 19 Borough High St,

London SE1 95E

Level 9, The Worm in Paradise Offer,

PO Box 39, Weston-super-Mare, Avon

B524 9UR

Hard Lines

A new joystick has been devised by Dean

Electronics which has 10 feet of cable

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