Msx Computing - Aug-sep 1986

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A Faymarlet puoca Augusveptemoer 19H !: . ' 10   •    • •  ING VOIC IN pROGRAM �  . souNDING so uNDING oiF ,  •   . · vAMAH'·s · -  .   -      _: .   -_ - -� .            '  c o M P  T  B 8   >  , E,   R    ,        and  time amily favourites are now available for  compute. These  time  from all good soware retaile or  retaile  or direct  direct  from All three All  from  three are on cassette and cost  Leisure Genius with the coupon below All the fun the fun and excitement of these classc board games, excep exceptt clearing them away aeards! ddress     MONOPO®       SCRABBLE®  CLU[  Please make cheques and posa orde to Vign Games Ltd (£.95 each) and pos to the address beow Pease do no po money Vin Games td, Vernon Yad 119 obeo Road ondon W1    CLUED� tade mark and copyrigh lcesed  Waddigons Games Ld. MONOPOLY® s produced de  icence fom Paer Broes ad Waddigon Games d SCRABBLE trade ma and copyig icesed by JW  Spea   Sos PLC A copyri hts esev eseved ed EISURE GENIUS® s a egiseed ade a of Wncese  Hodgs Ld, a sbsidiay of VIRIN GAMES LTD  EGUS ad al about t  th latt oduct and  vc fo fo X  X addct    STB Who ay th dto i owmad? Th  you chanc you  chanc to t a wod n 2  EDE NF How to t you back u and nu a tadyuyinthfutu lu tadyuyinthfutu an ducatd du catd u at what th nxt iu will hold 65 HIH SCES o you think you know about ayin am? T to bat th numb nu mb and don do nt fot fot to tll u about it if you do 66 CLUBS How to mak fnd and nflunc ol   NEWS FETUES   BSIC CUSE to fumblin with tho function ky and a th tu ow iin you ow  you own oam oam   6 XESS DELIVE. DELIVE. On man uid to ttin th b btt fom thi vati machin 22 HT STUFF Th cu of th catt catt lad haunt haun t atn Bank in h attmtto attmt to com to ttm m wth th X bun 25 CMETTN. tunnin nw Yamaha CXI u fo  ab 36 DISKTECH. ak you  dk div ally wok fo t vn with th oammn niht ETTS 26 DVENTUE QUEST Anoth havy hnt ion Anoth i on in th latt Yamaha hadwa and oft wa and an xlanation of IDI and  ynthi 36 MUSC TESTG   FELLW TVELLE. An ntuin otofX fom ony now avalabl down und 2  LLE BTHE Com act ntn at a budt c EES Th la tt com com ut book vw vwd d  3 SWE SCENE  x a of nw a 2NTUT STGS 52 A cton fo ad   One of the most inteesting tasks on MSX Computng is ooking thogh the lettes yo send s. Rega feedback fom the eades is the only way we have have of knowing what yo want fom the magazine and whethe o not we ae stiking a fai baance between the diffeent topics which inteest yo.  t is becoming cea that most of yo fa into one of two main categoies. Lots of yo ae expeienced enthsiasts with two o thee yeas of compting nde yo bets inclding expeience of machines othe than MX types. Anothe body of eades consists of elative newcomes most of whom boght MX micos as thei fist ompte aond ast Chistmas Obviosy thee ae difficties i n cateing fo both leves of expeience bt we hope we can contine contin e to come p with an accept acceptable able compomise Whateve yo think we wold like yo to give s yo thoghts on the way the magazine mi ght deveop. Ove the next month we'l be keeping a specia watch on the mailbag mail bag and yo opinion opi nionss wi wi  pay a significant oe on the shape of fte isses. Please wite athe than telephoning a witten ecod of eveyone's comments commen ts helps hel ps s  s get a bette bette a picte and besides we cod easily end p  p so so bsy ovea ove answeing the phone that we have no time eft ove fo podcing the next isse. Natay any changes yo ask fo wi be moe likely to happen if they ae easonaby pactica we cant add moe softwae eviews fo example ness softwae hoses bing ot moe tites. adly thee ae imits on the e of pages we we can pt in i n each isse iss e so if yo sggest nmbe nmb moe coveage in one aea ty to sggest something yo thinkk we shod ct down thin down on Leaving aside yo comments on the magazine fo a moment we also get a lot of ettes asking fo help with vaios pobems. Unfonatey we cant gaantee a pesona epy to these qeies tho gh we do make evey �ffo to wite back o to answe thogh the ettes pages when we ae able to to hep hep  Inevitaby o fist pioity mst be to bing the next MSX Computng ot on time otheise we wod ealy see some compaints fom MX ses! The editor welcomes any corrections or additios Prices quoted in editorial ad advertisemets are correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to vaiatio Every care is take i compilig the tets of this magie to ensure that the Y are correct ad accurate, but the publisher assumes o resposbiliy for ay effect from errors or omissios. All ma terial published i MSX Computing is copyright ad reproductio i whoe or in pa is forbidden except by permissio of the publishers Editorial advertising ad circulatio departments: Haymarket Publishig Ltd 38-42 Hampto Road, Teddigto, Middlesex T11 OJ elephoe: 01977 8787 Photosetting ad litho originatio by Meadway Graphics, Carlisle House House  198 Victoria Road Romford, ssex RL1 2NX Printed by: Chase Web ffset Plymouth © 1986 Haymarket Publishig Ltd DA ditor: Simo Cave  Assistant ditor:ulia ditor: ulia Alexander  A ditors:Richard ditors: Richard Gril oy Baldwin Photography Mike Cameo Paul Dudley Publisher Gaeth Reowde Pubishing Director: Patrick Fuller  ADV   Adveising anager anager Neil Alldrit Production Assistant aya Chesworth  Adveisement Director: Director:· Chadra Harriso Front ver illustratio by George Damerun Technica queries: we regret these canot be aswered over the telephone. However, should you wish to write in we will endeavour to answer any queries through the magine. Europe .  .. ........... .£6 £20             <"r . ..... .  .... .. £2 AirmaiMiddle ast  .   .£35 Afr, d  . £42 Airmai/USA, Ca, Afr, Aust, NZ Japan  £45 Airmail/ Aust, Less money more for more for   soware Two trend Twot rendss in i n softwa softwarr e market ing are currently sweeping the ndust One is to to bundle bundl e lots of games on to one tape and sell sel l it for a substanta substantall price and the other is to reduce costs to a minmum and br br ing out budget budget  pr iced titles The latest latestre reccr uit to the latter latter wa way y ofdoing bus busness ness s Blue Blu e Ribbon Softw Softwa are whic whichh has ust knocked down all its prces to a nice affordable £1 99 99 Hitherto Blue Ribbon has produced a bunch of games gam es for  boring machines like the Atari and Electron but now the  mpany has has decided decided to exhi exhibt bt a bit of taste and come up with an MSX range Goodies in cluded are a completely new game called M-Droid and con versions of teir existing ttles • • .: This is a printer. lt connects to your micro If you need more information, more information, Epson has some  manuals ' ere  s emanua  � Astro Plumber, Diamond Mine  and Das. aving problems wth your  Epson prnter? Dont panic  help s at hand. In ste stead ad of tng to telephone Epsons techncal suppo support rt desk for some sympathy and a verbal ve rbal diagnoss for £12 you can bu y one of the company's technical suppo suppo manuals and sort so rt out the probl em yourself All this is n addition to the ordnary user manual you get Gret ttl upgrd Spectravieo oes for anoher rive Spectravieo According to the press in formaton the MSX range will berel be 30JJ uly so even rel ease eased d on 30 even allowng al lowng fo for last-minute last-m inute hitches the games should be in the shops sho ps by the time you you read this Blue Ribbons new address � CS  House Beckett Road Doncast Donca ster er S Yorkshire rkshire so drect any enquiries there there th e look out ou t for  for  MS X owners on the MSX a dot matrix matri x pr pr inte interr below the £200 mark will be nterested in the latest from Centroncs The company has just up graded its Great ittle Printer  butt has kept the pr ice at bu at £1 99 Known as the GP 1 1 the pr nter offer offer s draft draft pr pr int at 1 00 characters per second and near letter quality at 25 cps Other features include 1 2 nternatonal character sets and an d a varety of print modes including condensed, super scrpt and under under line For more detailed informa ton contact Centronics Data mputrs Ptrham Harrington u Rad on dnn SW7HA d when you you buy yo your ur printe rinterr in the first place (and which Epson does better than most prnter  manufacturers) In fact you wont often get ths kind of techncal information at such a low pr pr ice The manual is written by Epson's technical services de pament pa ment and is aimed at sup plying end users with detailed product information whch pre- A second disk drive for upwardly X'Press owners for upwardly mobile X'Press Spctravideo Xress owners who find that one dsk driv ust isnt nough now hav hlp in thshapfan additional drv SV77 is a snglsidd hSV77 h   inch driv driv giving a frmat ted capacity of 60k Well so much for the borng stuff The mpoant detail ar that t is mal nat and pugs straght int th bac f yur yur X Xrs rs vn mr impant i th viously the company was only prepared to give out over the telephone S o nstead of hanging on the end of a telephone waiting for a re sponse why not nip down to your local Epson dealer and r ead up how to make the most of your your printer . More information can be obtained from Jane arrow at Epson UK on 0902 8892. fact that you will need to part with 25995 folding green green beer  vouchers to get a dealer to part with one of these invaluable devices. While on the subjec s ubjectt ofSpec of Spec travideo we hear with regret that the company is to drop its Voce Modulator This gas masklike device transforms wearer's rer's speech into one of the wea three robotic utterances. We know some peopl who must have these fitted internally Unfortunately there was not enough interest to make it worthwh wo rthwhile ile What has ths to do computing?Absolutely with computing? Absolutely no thing but we all need a break sometme For dtails about the dsk driv writ writ toS pc pcttr avideo 1 5 ah Road Mordn Surry SM4 4L 4L  Gettin  a rip on ae ha been ade lihtly eaer thank to three new arvel o joytck technoloy Palan Eectronc ha re leaed two two product he h e od etly titled Fantatic 1 1 coe coplete with a trealined and contoured contoured bae, dua d uall elec tronic irin button (what did youu expect yo expect  tea tea drven?) dr ven?) and eht poitional enor. he econd odel i the Quickhot  Plu (where have we heard that nae beore?) beore?)  lt ha the ede on the previou odel in the or o an autoire capablity and an eronoic den to top your truty trier iner lppin at the crucial oent he Joytck Joytck cot cot £6.95 £6. 95 and £1£1295 295 repectivel repectively and ore detail are avaiable ro Gra ha Cook Palan electronic nit 10, runwick ndutrial Park, Wateall Road, London 11 ot to be outdone the lead n joyti oytick produce producer,r, Spectra video ha brouht out a odel or al thoe who apire to Porche and conider a joy tick an eental ahion acceory. he Quickhot 2 urbo re tain the the handrip dein which w hich ha ade the Quickhot rane the top eller n the joytick world I n coon wth it predece or the urbo ha an autore witch and two ire button button ut  ut ichola Overi Overield' plea or an MSX Cobol copiler in the lat iue raied an aazin  re pone ro reader acro the world Guido Verult o the Sony Sevice Centre (Europe) in elu u  ha kindly upplied the title and Sony reerence nu ber o our dikbaed pack ae or MSX  (HJ S050) S050 ) (HJS051 (HJS051 D),  (HJS052D) and  (HJS053D) Overea  (HJS053D) reader hould contact their local Sony headquater or price and urther detail A card ro ro G G  J  Lichtenveld in Aterda reveal a Dutch ource or evada Foran on Piraes pu  Piraes pu  up heir hands The new Quickshot Turbo. Quickshot  Turbo. what hapn to the Ghia?  ore ipoant i the iey red colour chee and back, b ack, tud  ded handrip which ean it won't look out o place on the parcel hel he l o your portcar. portcar. MSX dik: dik: randt randteder eder electro ctro nic V, Jan avn Genttraat 1 1 9 1171 G adhoevedorp etherland Meanwhile on the hoe ront, Ada Dennn o Sot ware ool oolhop ho p ran to ay that he can uppl upp ly ot lanua nua e or MSXDOS yte by ex ploitn the copatiblity o MSXDOS wth any CP/M prora Apart ro Hot' caettebaed Pacal you will need a dik yte to ue thee lanuae Ad a can be reached on 0525 718271 and wll happly advie you you on which veron o C, Pacal or what ever t in bet wth your coputin need and budet coputin  he urbo i qute a bt cheaper than a Porche at 395 and hould help Spec Spec £ 1 395 travdeo retan t lead a oytck chap Meanwhile we huble aazine people are wonder in what people actual actua l y do wth all thee lann uae Sure, Pa cal and C are both reat lanuae nuae or writin  ae and utilitie Even oran ha Cobol? Great or t rend rend ut Cobol?Great writin  coercial payrol prora, but i that your ntention you iht ut be wron coputer lookin atthe at the wron coputer o doubt thouand o en ra ed ed Cobol an wll nowwri now write avourte in to explain why their avourte lanuae i the inet thin  nce tripe toothpate in which cae we wil be happy to aarr their vew in the next iue o    he anety oered by Mic roPro, all al lowin win people to leiti ie pirated copie o the  word proceor prora, ha et wth a airly are repone he oer wa ade in oveberoo lat year Anyone oveber wth a prated dik could end it to MicroPro with a cheque or £46, and the copy woud be uitabl ab ly arked and rei reitered a le alal  no quetion aked, no nae ven ven  About 750 dik were ent in, which a quick lin on the abacu tel u repreent an ncoe o around £34,500 or MicroPro hat wl preuably ake otware pirate and McroPro accountant eep eaier at niht t didn't alalll o oothly One peron ent h cheque taped to the dikk  Another threatened to ue McroPro when hi oneeandonly dk wa cor on rupted in the pot. On the whole  however it ha to be een a a ucce he copanyha copany ha recouped at leat oe o the revenue ot throuh lleal copyin he anety ay wel have achieved one o t econdary ai o rain the eneral awarene o the copyriht law ut whether it wil top people copyin   doubtul while prce o proeona otware rean hh A new lo low  w  for Sar   prices  priner  prices Printer baran are on oer ro Star Micronc to tept hoecoputer hoe coputer uer he copany ha reduced the price oo it 18 1 8 character per econd Power ype day wheel printer ro £349 to £229 £229 Star SX80 theral prn ter ha alo been reduced ro £1 49 toto £79. Star Micronc can be con tacted at Craven Houe 40 xbride xbr ide Road, Road, Ealin, Lon don W5 or telephone 01840 1800. Anothe notherr minor miracle in modem technology technol ogy Club details  showing on a TV ne a r  yo  you er club ae aepi pii up   up al over the place. c e. ew ha come i o clu b i Demak Auta lia , ad eve Spaldi. . Admit itt you're impreed. he Daih clc lub ha evoved rom a Spectavideo uer oup ad ow cover both type o compute he club publihe a maazie which oe out te time a yea to member i Demak Swede ad oway. The emphai i the maa ze  o mprov poam mi kil both i aic ad machie code, ad etti the mot out o MSX mache Cotact Richard Foerom, J Fjord ale 203 957 Fredeikbe C, Demark Demark  Meawhile, dow uder i South Autralia a buch o lkemided cobbe have ot toto  ether ether to orm orm a Auie ue roup t' ice to kow theye iteeted i more tha heep ut kiddi uy!)  you wat to ive the dideidoo a ret cotact Mauro Sa Sa iell el li the clu b pre pre idet, at 5 Eali Street, Sali buy Dow, South Autalia 5 08 Aut Autalia alia I the moe mo e exotic part part othe wold David Webbo Webb o Spaldi  tated   icol hire ha jut tated up hi ow club o MSX ue who live withi a 20 mile radiu o hi home tow tow . Memberhipp cot Memberhi cot ae bei  keptt to a miimum  i act kep act it will cot you a mere £ to joi Fo that you et a eular ewetter with iomatio o ew machie, poram ad peipheral  you live i Spaldi i  ad writitee to Davi David why ot?  wr Webb ecoi a tamped addreed evelope, at   Aycouh Aveue, Spaldi, Licolhire PE 2Q  you live i Wale howeve howeve Spalldi Spa i  i probably a bit too too ar to travel o cub meeti. You would be bette o etti  i G ecra. a. II  piteo pite o touchwiwith Gecr touch the hadicap o oly havi a iitial or a irt ame M Lecra ha tated MSX Co tact He' He'  baed baed at 23 Glycoli Road, reorci Rhodda, Mid GlGlamo amoa a CF42 SA.  Miracl' latt multitadard mdm brig quality withi rach f th mir  Miracle echooy ha re leaed a cheape veio o it tate o the art WS3000 erie modem The ew WS4000 ha al theeatue the eatue we've come to expect rom moder mod em  au autotodial, dial, autoa autoaw werer,, ad mutiple baud ate. lt i compatible with Haye pro tocol which a icrea  umber o otware packae ae adopti hee tadad baud rate h oered are 300 300 ad 200/7  200/755 ull duplex, ad 00 ad 200 ha duplex. pade are oeed or  200 ad 2400 2400 ull duplex to take advatae o the ew hih peed data lie comi  ito ue o ytem ike Pretel. Othe uprade uprade cude c ude toe dialli ad el toe, althouh houh they're ot much ue i thi thi  coutry. he price ta ta o the baic modem i £4995. Accord  to our truty pe Accord reeae Miracle' ae ad marketi maaer, David axter believe that he WS4000 bi the word o data commuicatio withi the each o everyoe ad i the ultimate i modem lexibility'  suer little childre childrenn Micro owners Don't  suer  in the club ideaoo MSX uer I you like the idea clu b but ot ui lotech ail mail to et i touch, why ot ue your micro itead? VR Wylad i rui a ew pae i the Gal Ga lery ectioo  o Pretel aimed at MSX micro who wat to et et  touch owewho owe with each other, or whatever reao. He' epecially i tereted i heari rom more covetioal club who miht thei detai poted o thi watthei wat electroic bulleti board. 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Several hardware hop tell me that MSX ytem ue nontandard oytick i thi true? ow do  o about makin  backup copie of my valuable hadtocomeby oftware? D Wson Woverhampon Tom Sao's ok is really a referene ref erene guide gu ide and aloug i is exnsive i is exremely well wrien and well wo buying buying Leuenan B. Has HMS Lveo Bo Speravideo and ama  a supply M paks bu ey are exnsive and likely l ikely o se  youu bak aoun yo aound d £ . s for e joysiks MSX mios an b us wi some nonMSX nonMS X joy joysiks siks bu no all. all . Before you buy  i ou n e sop firs. Dire Di re aa aa opying is usually sussful bu  opies mus no  b sold or len o oer users Shedding some light I am the owner of a JVC C7 and ve pleaed with it. ut I am very puzzled by the reen liht at the ide of the CODE key t doent liht up and a far a  can make out ee no ueful purpoe at all  I would be rateful if you would enlihten hten me  no pun intended  of the pupoe of the liht and the key P. Jac Jackso kson n Sheed Te CD keys on MSX ompuers are us for pu ing aens and umlaus ave leers. e prrammer's bibe  To ge your son saed lan Slnais book Inducing  the lit of oftware oftware tockit ve ueful ow down to buine! Pleae could you tell me whether there i any oftware available to dianoe fault in MSXX computer? MS Alo  am thinki thi nkin of tartin  an MSX club for outh wet ondon o if anyone i in Fault  finding tereted tere ted and ha a few idea d  d   ir tltly may  conratulate you ve much like to hear from on an excellent maazine. he tem prram litin are reat and RayGardener Te lig simply indiaes weer e CD key or e dead key is being used Having said a ours dsn lig l ig up u p eier eier We ae ae od by JVC a on Japanese mels i indiaes a e Kanji keyard is in use. Fuham We know of no diagnosi soare ommerially avail abe for MSX miros. We do know a Tosiba supplied mos of mos  of is dealers wi a es  M f you you ink  ink you ave a faul  wi your ompue your deal e sould b able o elp ou Learning to code  ats ave t e CODE key CODE key is u for  My on i eaer to lea machine code and aembly MSX Assmbly Lngug   nd  Mchn Code (£895 publis publ is by Collins or lan Tooill and David Barrows k Z Mchine Cod for Humns  (£7.95 ranada would b sound invesmens Designs on designing  would very much like to dein dein my own peripheral and had ware addon for my MSX ytem and proam in machine code Can you advie me what book I can read in order to obtain information about the ytem hardware Alo ae you able to advie on a uitable aembler.  am familia with both the Z80 and other aembler o the tech nical level of any information you can recommend hold no fear. R Ban Banser ser horey ou realy need o lay your ands on a opy of MSXs ardwae speifiaion ------ - ----- wi you sould be able o obain from Miroso iper House Ha Lane Windsor Berksire (elepone Wind sor 50075. s for a book on maine ode od e e bes pae o sar is wi R  enfold's book An Inroducion o ZBO Mchin  Cod.  is publised by Bernard Babani (elepone 0 60 6033 258  and oss 2.95. MSX MS X-o -out ut of  fashion?  it true that MSX coputer are not not bein anufacued a nufacued any ore? I have been to everal coputer hop and hey have all told e that oftwae int bein produced   produced either. Can you tell e, i MSXoin  MSXoin  ou of yle? So any people havee tod e MSX hav MS X i on it lat le  but  hope not a  have only had y coputer for eiht onth If thi i the cae hen I have ade a bad invetent. ee Wams Bounemouth bsoluely no. JVC is plan nng o bring ou s MSX 2 ie in e uumn Spe Spe  maie ma ravideo ra video s avely selling is Xress Tosiba's HX22 is also available and amaa is launing is CX5M Mark  launing  we say more? Tshib's HX-22 ws n o th rst sd tin tin mhins t  t   ppr   ppr  neier do you Tere are peny of dealers  and disribuors around and many an b found n our ls  of soare sokiss. Grundi ha a SCAR inpu. My local uppier ay tha if he new which of the pn  pn on the Sony were wred and how, he could wie up aSCAR a SCARinpu inpu plu. A Sony ha aaeady eady inoed two of y leter houd I wite aain in Japanee? J A Steet South Gamo Gamoan an We reomend a you on a Sony's usomer rela ions division a Sony House Sou Sree Sanes Mid dlesexx TW dlese TW 8 F. Or you an elepone em on Saines 6688 What does it mean? Th Grundig P40 125 Wire vranle� Havin  recently purchaed a Sony MSX  a eein a SonyMSX   a ood quality TV/oni TV/onitor ro variou ource I have deterined tha the Grundi  P40 5 i the bet buy and I note fro a previou iue of MSX omputn that it i co patible owever  you e wre ony h h  p  pininnl thony th nloue  outlt po wh th e Pleae can can you hep e? e ? I have one throuh throuh he anua wih y MSX icro and all he iterature that cae wih y data recode bu I til havent been able to find ou what ALC ean. Matthew Dukn Se/by uomai Level Conro Authors at  fault    afraid I have a coplaint. Mny of the prora  have obtaind fro variou introduc to boo for MX te   lnthy priod to nt I dont  ind tht but b ut it i ve ven nnoyi noyin  when hey fail o run becaue of ero that ae no of y own ain. Copuinn ii  a coty and Copui tie conuin hobby and it i ot annoyin to find hat both i e effo effortrt and oney ha been Printin wated due to ncorect in  foration roblems Dense Shephed Baon-Le-Dey  have an MSX Go G odtar copu and Seioha GP 500 dot ter a We oudn' agree more we atix piner oo ave suered o our os Pleaecan ae can you ell el l e how to uors pease ake noe ue the achine to print full copie of prora a and when equired Unimpressed At the oent I have only  a writin to how y di had ucce when puttin  peaure in the hoae hoae of MSX PR PRT T a the tart tart of each each i ne. oftware oft ware I a ure  ure you officee I have ried all o of foruae ut be inundaed with etter wih no ucce. lie ine G  awthaw  tle oftware oftware Bney Why i there o tl and why  t not adveted ore? T LLIST. Recent iue of MSX Co puin  have entioned MSX  Pokes in   uppo uppoee ther theree wi be a hotae of ofwae fo that demand  achine too AndewGoodwn Why don' you have a PO Mancheste  pae o reader can cheat on thei favou favouririte ae? Unfounaey yes we do ge a I a ure plenty of eade lo of leers and eepone would end in PO PO they have have als omplaining abou e deined heelve then you lak of soware and soware could lay aide a pecial pae dsribuors. forhe for he all  s really a Ca 22 siuaion. 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Tey mus be mus be ere for some reason surely? Tis mon were going o disov er a ese keys ave more olouul poenial an eir radiionally grey appear ane would would ind iae! MX function keys a re often neglected Tim Markes opens up some possibilities c  c     ,   +  g   u c" c O wn e r A n dre rew w Emm Em m e rs o n a ss e s s e s this dual-standard pectra video. an' prov prove e i, bu I have track 55 floppie dik co alas suspeed ha patibility with the M PC a he maori of people potential to ix coputer ho bu ahing magazines raphic with hoe video in never geo on a ah his hort a new ta I ut ay  doesn' sop hem from read have not reretted the chane ing abou ahs, hoever but  never realied how uch and I am sure he ge a lo of work it would involve pleasure pleasur e reading abou heir Many of the clai ade for dream mahines and beom MSX have turned out fale and ing ver exper in he pro it ha not becoe a word tandard or anythin likeit. ess, oo e it.  a With coputer it i probaby till a upporter thouh and differ dif ferent ent  afafteterr all hoe you only have to o to Holand coputer are a lot ore to ee MSX a aor force. n affordable than yacht. yacht. All Al l the both Japan and the ether ae you ay be undecided land MSX ha taken off off ve about upradin and readin  nicely and it i ad that the thi aazine in the hope of anufacturer have left u findin an unbiaed opinion rit lat in the queue to have about the erit of thi or that the uprade ever ind I achine don't do n't ne need ed MS MSX X  .  Coe to think about it how oftendo often do you read a letter fro a he X Press reader ayin that   that oando i One thin the Japanee a heap ofof rubbih and a nd hould be have not quite atered i a taken off the arket? feel for ritih dein f you Well orry to diappoint you a ree that theC Model i a but thi aicle i not nontop reaonably tylih coputer critici nor i it  00 per cent you wil alo aree that ot ot of fuloe in it praie.e . ln hort it the oriental hoe coputer a noh nohololdbarred accountby account byaa are rather lackin in viual fairly experienced hoe co tyle he Spectravi Spectravideo puter uer of hi chane to X'Pre fro Hon  on MSX the pleaure and the appealed to e however. however.  alo trial. If you are are hoveri hoverin on the liked the buil bu iltin dik drive and brink epecial y if you are the capability to run CP/M and thinkin about the Spectra MSXDOS a well a the nor thinkin al Microot aic So  video X' Pre read on! o n! bouht an X'Pre and  like Wh MSX? Wh •t  hatwhat hat what y friend aked  like the 80 colun dipl dip layy when  told the  wa chan chan in  which i eential for any fro a peectly ood C to eriou word or fiure proce MSX. he C i wellup in  lik e the carin cae and ported with oftware and the bundled oftware you et book why on earth chane chane?? with it  like the coprehenive Well  had read the publicity docuentation you receive buy real' for MSX MSX  new word tandard too plu  the ability to buy for hoecoputer hoe coputer nice co oftware uch a Wodsta  at cal l Atrad Atrad price. what ut call pact little dik with hue tor what a e capacitycopared y copared with 0 h hee achine doe have a 16 few buthe fewbu the ot obviou obviou i that when you are in 80 colun akin any errorcaue odeaki ode the beep to ound continuou uou  ly (until you hit controltop). t alo bu e to know that you have an extreely detaied raphic capability without the inforation on how to addre the creen. A uperb raphic deo prora accopanie the achine but it all in achine code. o way coud you create thee raphic in aic t i unfortunate that when the coputer i in CP/M ode it forat and read dik in a totally different ethod fro MSX. Spectravideo doe at leat provide a tranlation prora {but doen't tell you it wil only work on a twindrive yte and then only if the MSX dik i in drive A and the CP/M one in drive ve ) )  Goof soare f you too too are a eri er iou' u ' MSX uer you wil alo have coe coe to breakdown tryin  to find oftware that work. Cor rectiontryin to  to fin d oftware at all .   How any hop bother to tock any MSX ot ware other than ae? Wher Wheree can you t out a decent word programs literaly dozens of MSX programs on te Dtc restel system) and dmp screens to te printer. Kmas prodct does none of tese In fact it even ovewrites te did is area so it cannot be sed on a disk system no is te com pany prepared to adapt te program or refnd money to people wo find tis naccept able. Caveat emptor Te Comptermates package is qite good by compaison, bt lacks te ability to download software: tis is promised for later deveopment. I coldnt wait). As for for tilitilities es  te only commercial one  wold recom mend is Hisofts Devpac a sperb piece of software lt does, owever, need MSX DOS or C/M to work and not everyone every one can get ol  old of tese  now ave a good collection of tilities for playing aond wit te contents of disks and to downoad NQ Near Lette Qality) fonts to a dotmatrix printer bt none of tese are availabe commercial y end me an SAE care of te editor if yo wold like details ofof tese). tese) . Satisfaion a ast processor  or commnica tions po pogrgram am  or a disk sk doctor tility? Nowere in te UK it wold appear appear OK, teres always mai order so  bogt tree word processors ackte Wdp and ntet None of tese can be called professional since none can display text as it wil evental eve ntall y appear Tey are all confined to 40 colmn display, even tog 80 colmn com pters are now on te market. Te acktet came closest to a rea W program and appaently an improved ver sionin is on te way Wdp not even rn on my compter and in fact it does not se genine MSXDOS bt te omebew KmaDOS. Save yor money  go straigt straigt fo Wdsta! lt takes a bit lo nger to learn bt b t it is a tre pofessiona program. Commni Comm nications programs? programs? Wel, I adtosendoff ad tosendofftoto Holland Holland did te bsiness to getone get onetat tatdid and I can woleeartedly re commend MT Vidite {te only problem is tat yo ave to ndersta nder stand nd Dtc Dtc  wic wic I do) M does everyti everyt in g M does  it gives gives fl color re reste stell grapics it lets yo download  initialy togt of caling tis article sefelp becase yo feel as if yo are on yor own wen yo coose MSX. lt is remarkable tat MSX ownes ownes aveno ave no natina ser gop in tis conty yes, I know tee off otfi otfits wic take £1 £10 are ripoff off yo bt send no newsl news let s) Help is at and tog ters) ter Tee are tree excellent books wic sold be on any serios MSX ses sef  fond all al l tree very very sef sef avefond ave Tey are The mpete MSX Pammes Guide by Sato Meborne Hose) The MS MSX X Bk by Hoffman Osborne/ McGrawHil) and te MS MSX X Technica Guide diect from Microsoft UK in Reading) Tese books tel yo nearl ne arly) all te secrets Also, aving C/M gives gi ves yo access to a ge selection of socalled pblic domain soft ware Tese are programs written by pbicspirited folk wo ave decided to carge noting for tei labos and most of te programs are good some ae even sperb and a fewtrn ot to be well wel l a bit naff naff By oining te blic Domain Software nterest Grop DS DSGG for sort) yo yo can ave access to ndeds n deds of disks ofof software soft ware pls a good magazne every tree monts monts  Te fee fo copying a disk of D software is jst £2 yo spply te disk) and te X ress ress C/M C/Mform formatat is DSG DS G no 21 0 te grop can format and ecod disks in dozens and dozens of formats). formats) . lt can also download programs fom one format of disk to anoter, at a cost of arond £7 a diskk  Te process does not transform one diaect of BASIC into anoter tog tis is eft to yo ts a sefl service if yo are canging comptes and need to convert a lot of text pocessing files for instance. Other rinkles Having bogt te Xess yo may well feel te need to rs ot and by lots of disks and a second disk drive Te prices wil pobably cre tis desire bt a twindrive system is ndeniab ndeni aby sefl. sefl . So is a box box fll of microfloppy disks And ere is my tip  so sopp arond arond and expeiment expeiment  Seveal companies sell top qaliity Apicot disks for arond qal arond £2 a box of 1 0 and oter firms get close to tis price if yo yo by by te box A second drive can can be yors for arond £1 00, from somewere ike Vig len Comp ter Spplies. Wat yo yo want is an 80 track singlesided drive. Dont get te ceaper 40 tack tack so Tiss comes in a smart cream Ti cream case wic matces te Xress nicely) and yo even get a tiity disk As it is meant for te BBC micro it wont do mc for yor MSX bt yo can se it as a blank Ten all yo need is a 2pin D plg from dy and yo can plg it into Tandy yor Xress f te editor allows write in and pester) ll pblis s  te wire connections connections in a ftre isse lts great aving drives N need t wite and twodrives two peste   its cmin peste cmin in in the net net issu is sue e  Ed Well tere yo are    it is possible to enjoy an MSX system particlary if yo coose te X ress f yo yo want to get in toc wit any of te organisations I ave men tioned and recommended tese are isted below  I ave no connection wit any of tem except as a satisfied cstomer Microsoft Ltd, 9 De Montfot Road Reading Berks RG1 8LP. Public Domain Softwae In terest tere st Goup,  38 Holtye Road, Road, East Grinstead Sussex RH19· 3EA (Send SAE fo informatio informatio sheets) magi ne a omputer that ill fit In our briefa briefase se and runs off baeries. magine suh a omputer ith its on liquid rstal displa and built in soare that inludes a ord proes sor a spreadsheet a diar a ommuniations pakage and ASC. magine suh a omputer ith a built in    olumn printer a built In modem a built in telephone and a built in lok lok magine that omputer Is able to run MSX programs Name this Imagina omputer the Son SMCT SMCT  and a nd ou ou have realit Te SMCT11 is aving its frst lanc otsde apan n Astralaa  were MSX s gettng p a god ead of steam against entrenced entrenced rivals t is availabe wit a price tag of arond £1000 t s not strctly an MSX compter Lacking a 2 lne color dspay and oystck pos it cannot ope to do al of te tngs compters sc as te Sony Ht Bit do Te oter maor dfference is tat te resident Mcrosoft Basic is cal led HHX Basc standng for Hand Held eXtended Basc Tis is a mxtre of MSX and MSX isk Basics wt some extra commands needed for featres on te andeld macne macne Specifications A qick rn trog te specfcatons gves an dea of wat yo get for yor money At te eart eart ofof te SMCT1 1 is te tred and tested tested MSX engine eng ine a Z80A mcroprocessor rnning at 8MHz Tere s 6K of ROM n wc te bilt in appcatons are stored For program data tere is 2 2KK RAM Tere s also a clock to RAM keep track track of tim e and date da te Te wole compter mea sres st 2 x 280 x 60mm and weigs 6kg ower comes from for szed alka lne cels or an optiona AC adaptr A car andle aids poability and te keyboard is protected by a removable lid Several flaps protect all pos from damage n transt Te finis s n cream sockress tant plastc Te dsplay s on a liqid csal screen 80 comns wide egt colmns deep Maxmm Maxm m resolton s 80 x 6 6 pixe e Bend ts is a near letterqal tter qality prnter prntingot prnting ot on eiter termal or conven tional A paper wit an inked several cartridges to be sed at once Te cassette port allows storage of programs or data on adio c�ssettes Compatible MSX programs cold be loaded tis way or data transferred from te portable Sony to a desktop MSX ata transfer rate s 200 bad A faste fasterr option s an MSX disc drve plggng nto a porton te sde of te Sony Any MSX OS program can be loaded or saved and data switced from one macine to anoter by 1cm MSXOS disks An nformatted nformat ted disk olds 00K Te bl b lt ini n software software is com preensve enog to make oter programs almost n necessa Wen te Sony is swtced on by a btton nder ttee screen te nitial dsplay sows te dsk all al locaton on for p to fve devces te free mem ory a drectory of files and extensions te crrently selected file wit its size and wen it wascreated was created if it is a ser file te crrent date and time  and wat te fncton keys do At ts stage it is possible to alter te time and date deete or rename fies copy from one fle to anoter and to load a fle from an external devicee Follow te prompts and everyting s easily done Having te btin telepone s a ve sefl featre. All Al l te telepone fnctions are avail The on ony y M M-- T  is able if an applicaton called Tlcom s rn Te fncton n o t a tr true ue MX m icr icro, o, b u t keys intiate te varos proce dres and te Sony mst be could b e a taste o f things connected to a telepone socket to come function tion ribbon. Te printer rns at 1 enog RAM to store a Phone func caracters per second wt medimszed docment a For a start any keyedin eac caracter on a 2 dot small telepone directo directo and a nmber can be dalled or te te and as variabe prnting range of dia entries Te last dialled nmber redialled matrxand matrx densty spreadseet Mcrosofts well Tere is a bilt n mcropone sppedon Oter pos provde for con known Mu/p/an s spped on and speaker so te compter necton of an accessory tele a ROM cartridge tat slots in te acts as a ands and s freetel free telepone pone andset an ordnary back of te casng ts 2 2KK wt variable speaker volme telepone, an MSX cassette overlays 2K of te 6K ap An accesso andset can also player an a n accesso accesso 00 bad plication ROM Oter applica be connected for more prvate acostic copler an Epson tions cold e written on RO ROMM cals and an extension pone compatble serial printer an caridges by eiter Sony or sed as a normal telepone MSX disk drive a RAM car tird paies making te SMC A find opton searces tridge and possbly a wole T11 eminentlysitableforvei trog a fie caled one range of oter periperals ce markets sc as insrance Book looki o king for a matcto matcto any Te keyboard s straigt off companes name inpt at te prompt lt an MSX compter tog Anoter option is to xpand displays al matces to te compressed and rearrangedto rearranged to te RAM wit a 2K Statc searc string and te assoc ft te dmensions of te RAM or SRAM cartrdge Ts ated telepone nmbers Yo macne Tere  are te pro gves almost nstantaneos pt al yor commonly called fnction keys cr loading of data and te car nmbers into tis file and ock grammablefncti grammable sor control keys sift opton trdges are extremely portable. yor pone book away and grap keys  everytng Tey ave a battery in tem to Even f yo arent sing yo fnd on a desktop MSX keep te data intact Tey plg Telecom yo can stil se te Several storage options are nto te dsk drve port and telepone. pone. ressng Alt and a presented Te Sony as Sony is planning presented nni ng a box to allow fnction key allows yoto yo to inpt grapics come p qite ncely on te C screen and can o corse be printed ot rogrammers sed to MSX Basic wi 1 soon come to terms wit HHX Basic Tere is nol wit no l screen edtor. edtor. Editng s done on a lne by ne bass bass  Te nction keys work work n te same way as on an MSX micro and can be programmed. program med. Tee are are al te sel commands sc as ATO ATO  REM R EM  TRO and EETE Te maor dier EETE ences relate to te capabilties o te poable compter Some MSX sk Basc com mands are missng too incld ng te WHE WHE    WE str strc c tre. Bt  yo ave wrtten a program in MSX sk Basc tere s a very good good cance tat it wl rn on te Sony a nmber call t select andset  or ands ree operation ang p te telepone and even mte ncoming cals Tis sort o sability was poneered by IC wit its One er esk Te Sonydoes Sony does mc tesame te same wt a smaller compter and n an MSX envronment. Terminal mode Witin te Telecom progr program am is a termnal mode allowng yoto contact bleti et in boards or se electronic mal networks sng te biltin 00 bad modem An external modem can be sed too as well as a Sony acostc copler so te compter old link nto data basess trog te base t e andset o a pblic telepone n te termnal mode te commncatons settings can be atered Tere s a coic e o bad rates rom 110 to 1200 bad wit ve to egt data bits one 1. or two stop bts any party ty at ll or al dpex wt XO/XO CTS/RTS or Xmodem protocols ata can be vewed on te screen or sent to te printer les can be ploaded or downoaded. Yo ave al yo need to get into electronic ctronic commncations commncation s Bt tere is more to te settngs tan tat. Te SMC T1 1 can be set set p to atomat atomat caly answer an incoming call and to rn a program at tat stage. or nstance te Sony cod be set p to rn Remote wenever it receves a cal. Te applcaton caled Re mote trns te portable into a dmb terminal and it can ten be connected to amost any compter big or smal and sed to enter or receve data rom tat compter Te Schedue program is da ry desgned to make a desk dary moree tan reredndant. mor dndant. Appont ments or alarms can be keyed in  dsplayed and printed ot. An alarm setting wll case eiter an alarm to sond even  te compter s trned o) wt a message dspayed or a preset program to be rn or instance yo mgt program te Sony to wake yo p and rn a scedle so yo can can see wat yo ave ned p  p Anoter sel eatre is tat a name or oter word can be searced or  yo arent sre wen yo are meetng Mr Smt or lnc se ts aclty to nd te relevant dary entry entry  Te word processor called Word s a smple  easy to se text edtor Text is typed n and save sa vedd to RAM It can be printed printed Compatibility ot on te nbilt  nbilt prnter prnter or an external prnter. Te nbilt printer is very dranng on te batteres so s best only sed or sort letters  yo want to print ot long docments transerte transer te le to anoter MSX compter or se an external prnter C ut and paste Text can be edited wt ct copy and paste commands A secton o text s s  marked and tat ection ection can ten be ct or copied Wat as been ct or copied s ten past pasted ed to a new locationn  Wen a prntot s re qested te rst tng tat appens is tat a minatre preview o wat te na page will ook ke s sown on te C screen Tis prevew can bereqested be reqested at any tme and a nd s a great way o seeng ow letters tters wil look wen p p nted nted Word alows a nmber o nctions to be embedded n te text Tese do tngs sc as centrng text ndernng caracters and so on So So  Word is an excellent means o pre parng and prntng letters or preparng docments doc ments or trans mission wt te modem to anoter compter compter I yo want to wrte a book get anoter compte Lst s a very sel program accessedd rom te main accesse ma in men ts prpose is to searc searc nomin nomi n ated les or speced strngs ollow te on screen prompts to se se t  A target storage devce s entered ollowed by a le name Ten te strng to be ond s typed in Te e s searced ed and li nes con rapdysearc rapdy tat strng are displayed pl ayed taningtat taning on te screen wit optona printot. st cold be sed to nd or nstance any doc ment n wc ondon was mentoned Mu/tp/an is an old bt power l spreadseet or inancial analyss t as a wde range rangeoo commands or data entry and manpaton and spread seets can be prntedot prnted ot on te prnter Alternatvey data cod be transerred by te modem or on a disk di sk to a second second compter Trnng o power wen any applcaton is being rn s no dsaster Wen te Sony s trned back on t remans atte stagett was beore t was trned stage o ow power warnings re mnd yo o te need to cange batteres Te last program s Basic HHX Basc s a ybrd o MSX sk Basc and MSX Basic wt a ew extra commands Tese extra commands are to dea wit te nblt telepone and to allow vaes to be loaded to regsters Mssing are al te com mands related to V otpt andd sc as COOR SRTE S RTE an commands or devces devces sc as oystcks Tere is no pont wrtng in commands or non existent aclities Stl HHX Basc does ave some grapic commands sc as CRCE IE RESET OT and and OCATE Black and wte Simiary Sim iary an appcation on wrt wrt ten nder  nder MSX MS X Basic tat does does not se te V aclties or oystcks a program sc as a text adventre sod rn on te Sony too t can even be loaded rom cassette SMCT1 T1 1 s totaly com Te SMC patible wit MSXOS MSX OS appca appca tons Any data rom an MSX OS program can be sed and data transerred nder tis operatng systemto system to oter MSX compters i a disk drve s attaced Compatbity aside te Sonys Basic is ve good In act a good programmer cold probably wrte some excellent appcations sing te blt in acilities o te compter Cer Cer tanly ie andlng rotnes cold be written tat are con derably better tan te onboardrotne onboard rotness or instance tere s no batc processng o ies or le merging possble oter tan trog Basc Basc  excelent ent Te SMCT1 1 s an excel example o te MSX ploso py n act acton on MSX compters compters are not st 6K desktops or te ome ome  Te MSX system system s gong to be applied wit sigt modcations to al types o compters Sony s te irst to apply MSX MS X to te ed o laped compters and ave come come p wt a device tat is gly compatibe wt te standard yet able to do many dierent tngs o dobt tere wll be oter oter HHXX compters to come Te HH Sony s a arbnger o te tre and yet anoter sign tat tre wen te MSX concept s all worked work ed ot t wll be as compe compe ensive a standard as anyone cold ws    =  - _ -           -  Excusive Sorce map sows you te te way around Vrgins bestseer Mke Gerrad expores Leve s Worm n aradise. 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All tems include a ful l year garantee. garantee. All prices includ e VA Prodcs ae socked and usually despatchd witin two days. Overseas cusomers add £4 post and packing Ceques with cheque card numbe, Posta Orde, etc., payable to AVISOCK HI-FI LTD. elephone orders (0234) 56323. Access/Brccd d Pese debi t  Access/Brcc C a rd N u m be  _      _    _      _    _ (      Banks nks su sus spe pect cts s Martin Ba n ce ren rfe e re lica a l in te rf dia b o lic dia illl s s til tes - h is c a s s e tte won't load. is time of te year it becomes very difficut to concentrate on any ting epemera or intangible, ike work, or oadtesting com putes or answering letters from te bank manager Wen I say tis time of couse, I dont mean tis tis time but tat one, a tis time tat is now irrevocably locked into te past, a tat tis time if you like. (Wha Bankse s n o say hee s ha hes wn hs n he as days of June, and Wmbedon s occupyn mos of hs aenon Ge on wh  Man Ma n  Ed) Having to sit in front of a computer and perfo perfom m wonder u  tricks wit tem to try and find out wat tey can do is a vey well, but it is not my personal idea of fun wen tee is Wimbledon on te goggle box. I find te ikes of Martina Navratiova and immy Con nors muc more interesting tan your average spead seet. Indeed, I ndeed, at times ike tis,  find iti t more interesti teresting tante tan te average game progam.  I ave found one compensa tion owever tat tennis pro g am I told you about last issue I ave ad great peasure sowing immy Connors just were e went wrong by play ing te game for im . o be fair to te computer, and for tat matter te program, Connors in te form of yours truly) stil lost. We fougt valiantly owever, Connors and  t was a same tat Connos and I lost te ematc against te computer, because I could ave tolerated playing te gamefor game for a considerabe time in te in tees teeststs of sport, scientific esearc and aticles for MS MSX X ompun aving ost, owever, I was eft wit noting ese to do but get on wit some odinary work o be more precise, I ad little aternative but to cary on were I ad left off last issue. For tose wit sort memoies, tis was te point were  ad faied completey to get te MSX macine I ad to oad in anyting from cassette. is, I ad decided, was someting of an inconvenience but, in te context of a fist aicle and a first attempt at cracking te problem, I didnt fee too aggrieved about it. fte al, everyone as teeting troubles wit a new or different ferent macine, maci ne, dont tey? By te time tis next aticle came ound, tougt I, te probem would ave been to te soved and I cou d move tote next ideas I wanted to pay aound wit. Mupy, te great aw maker and breaker of strong wiwils , ad decided oter wise, owever Let me explain just a ittle Wen Lord Editor Craven, esteemed spiritual guide of tis august organ, read of my pligt wit te cassette, e took pity on me. eepone janging, e left word wit my answering macine tat e would offer some assistance. e sug gested tat e migt come round soon and ceck a few tings out, not least of wic being te computer itself s  was already busy doing oter tings and being terminaly ki nd lazyto zy to boot) I accepted tis kind offer and promptly fogot about te problem. Wit tee tings and four oters, it wassome was some time before te two of us got tings togeter and a nd ten it was a case case of te good Lod Edito drop ping ofofff various bits and pieces incuding a different compute, wit a ceery y tat lot Well, to cut a tedious stoy so,  did. e end result makes me squim wit sef doubt, for I stil cannot get anyting to load from cassette. Have you ever fet persecuted? at is cetainly wat I am feeling just at present. I always end up wondeing wat it is about oter peope tat ets uptoto a totaly strange tem walk up computer system and, wit te minimum of fuss, get it to do everyti every ting tey want. Me, I just seem to put a curse on te accursed tings. Let us take te curent exam ple. Eveyting bar one ele ment as been canged about my attempts to get a program loaded from cassette. e computer as been canged to an C7GB fro fromm VC. i  is is a twotone gey affair wit a vented power bulge aong te back. is ides te powe suppy and gets quite warm afte a wile. Otewise it seems to be a pretty viceess macine on my acquaintance so far. s wel as te computer, te cassette ead as been canged ese can some times be a weak ink in getting data across from te cassete to te computer, so te good ord Edito brougt anoter one along. Finaly, te cassette payer itsef was canged I ad used my favouite andportabe monorecorde ast time, te type tat looks a bit like a persona stereo fom a dis tance. is as worked befoe wen connected to oter per sonacomputes, sona computes, so its integrity as not been in real doubt, so far as I am concerned Noneteess, a larger playe was aso connected up to te system ust to see wat ap pened, but te results wee exac ex actty ttee sam samee . . . noting. I tied running te ecoder fom a mains adaptor adaptortoto see if it migt be any poblem wit variabe batt battery ery powe, powe, but tat acieved noting new. I even tried canging al a l te jack ack pugs around,, just in case, but tatgot around me nowere fast. lt was ten tat  reaised te ony eement of tis exercise tat as, so far, swapped not been canged o swapped fo someting ese. at, not to put too fine a point on it, is me. I am beginning to assume tat   X ·   am te inx on te wole ting. One ting tat sti intigues me is te fact tat every pogram I ave at pesent seems to ave a difeent keystroke keystr oke requiement requi ement to get it to load. One wl tell me to key run CS and tat wi be sufficient. Otes tel me to key key in load FILENM FILENME E,, R  and success wi be mine. Stil oters say tat te secet is to key in CLOD CLO D FILEME} FI LEME} .  ese variations are, to say te least, untidy. Wat is more important owever is tat so fa as I am concerned at east, not one tem works on any program at any time, on eiter recorder, cassete lead or com puter t must be me. If it is ten we ave a sma problem, for one of te tings tat I wanted to ook at n tis series was getting to know te MSX macine so tat it coud become usefu, not necessari necessariy as a noodsbarred business macine maci ne but certainy as more more tan just a games player. ere are a number of appications were a macine ike te MSX tribecan tribe can prove its wo wee its ability to run a wod poces sng package, simpe spead seet o a maing s o smal daabase can be of gea in ees e es and elp o an an nd  ndidua i dua. Suc capabities can ep no ony e ndiidua bu aso tose noed in unning cubs oosmal smal oganisations. I know I beong to one sma oganisa tion wee e secetay s a compue feak, feak, and  get eams of to toaa y oganised infomation fomiis sysem eeryi fom eery ime I see im. One fy in e onment s s tat mos of e sofwae fo suc appicaions is o be found on ape as is is a fa moe coseffecie way of selng pogams tan te caidge, wic is an epensie item o manufacue and equies a g oume poduction un o make  wotwie. A pesent teon te ony cartidge ta I ae a a fits tis useful  useful desciption is a copy of Bank Steet Wie a wod poces sng package. So, wit ca tidgepl ge pluggedi socket on gged in o its socketon e sde of e JVC, e powe was uned on and epei menation began. ee was was an m mediate litte ti s poin  No being e best tis best ofof topysts  . . soy ypiss, te flowing pose ta appeas on sceen is no always of e mos coeen aiety I know wat I wan o we, but my finges nee seem to wan o paici pate. Wi te JVC keyboad, owee, e misakes wee coming ick and fas, faste tan aeage on oe macines, ncuding e Sanyo I ad befoe. ee definiely seemed someting wong wit te keyboa keyboad. d. A ite epeimentation e eaed te foowing inees ineesing ing eents, wic epain at eas some ofmy of my yping eos. If you ake any MSX macine and ype n te tee caace CBA, you ge CBA up on te sceen. Bu if you ty te same ing witout eeasing te keys, afte e fist CBA, te autoepea takes oe. is is al well and good, bu te sing wic te macine auoe peats s not CBA. l is miacu ousy tansfomed tansfomed no ABC. ABC . y it fo youself in any pogam wic takes tet inpu  Basic, wod pocessos o wateee you ae. lfyou pes wate pesss softwae fi and  ope a sometng simila may be possible in is case. Indi I ndiec ecy owee, at eas tis pobem gae good gounds o est e editing capabiliies of Bank Stee Wie tee was peny to edi. is is wee e epeience of nealy any oe wod po cessing package can be a posite disadanage, fo Bank See Wie goes about ings ike editing n a paicu ay cackanded fasion. Fo eampe, tee ae wo distinc modesofof opeation modes opeation witing witingand and editing.. Nee, it woul editing would appea, appea, do te wain meet is means tat if you wis to coect a misake wie you ae witing you ae jus two op tions. e fis s o use e backspace key to delete eey ing you ae jus wten, o  you ae to pess e scape key and moe ino e di Mode.is Mode. is is not only iesome iesome but te mode itsef is also a Finding ng and eecuting e pain. 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Haing done al tat you ten § wete ae o answe a question on you eall y wantto cary cary  outtetask as se of setng it ee, e fis en caaces c aaces o Aftealal te ass sim ple onewod ease ease appeawil appea keyss in e up fo a simpl wil be tose tosekey ode you pessed e keys. being asked if I was sue e autoepea funcion wil seemed penickey in e e pint e caaces in teme. alpabetica ode  o if Haing failed miseably wit nonapabeti nona pabetic caaces ae geting e cassete o wok, I incu ded, n n ascending ode of was moe tan a ittle con cened abouconnecting abou connectingup ASCII aue aues.s. up my My cuen eo is ta eisting pine, an pson RX 80.. 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Te jdges decis decison on is inal correspondence dence wll be and no correspon enteed into Haymarket 2 Noemp No emplloyees o Haymarket blising o Yamaa or teir immediate amlies may enter  Enties rom competitors deemed by te jdges to be proessi proe ssiona compter jona ists wil be ignored ands o Gerrard Markes and te rest)  All entries mst reac s on or beore te closng date o Wednesday t October 186  Entres mst be addressed to Yamaa Competiton MSX Comptng ng aymarket Pblisng td 82 ampton Road Teddington Middlsex Middls ex TW11 TW1 1  is stil wit o wic is qit q itee a srprise as yo last saw im in is stdy in Hambrg Yo mooc abot in Copenagen awile all of six locations) ten off to Reykjavik to make yor way to te earts core Id made it tis far in abot five even mintes mi ntes ofof play and I tin k even beginners will find it all rater obvios AlAlll_ bt te first part of te adventre req ires yo to enter reqi a code and an d te cassette cassette cover warns yo tat te macine maci ne wil N EW if yo get te code wrong bt ini n act act it doesn doesntt yo can list te program and altog te code is eavily disgised it soldnn t take too too long n g to work it ot if yo need to Overall  fond tis adventre dis appinting ten its main virte virte being te price and for tree qid yo can afford to try it for Yo begin in te all of yorself in case yo disagree rofessor Hardwiggs fine wit me me ose in Hambrg tog yoll ave to read te book to find ot wic caracter yore meant to be On te left of te screen is a box in wic is listed te items yo old tog tis is ilc at te start and on te rigt is a note of te exits available to yo Between te two is a simpl simp le grapics screen wit not all te locations being il lstrated Bel B elow tat is te text description wit room for yor inpt and finally a list of  have an possible commands comman ds at te bot averson to tom Tese can be entered by adventures single keypresses sc as  here nstead of for ook X for Examine wit usn your ran te crsor keys sed for move you have to  ment Tis does lead to a little at the foot of the confsion at first as yo type in sreen for E for East only to find Eat? on otons te screen or yo enter E for Examine Exami ne to begreeted wit Eat  Eat Book? Stil  yo soon get sed to it  do ave an aversion to tose adventres were yor possible corses of action are listed for yo as instead of Ceainly not disappoiting is sing yor brain yo ave to h he e Pice of Maik evel s look instead at te foot of te followp to te igly praised screen to see wats open to Rd Moon. n tat game yo yo in a particlar lcationn  f ad to elp el p restore te power of yore at Altona Station and magic to te kingdom ofofBaska Baska bide yor time a train plls in in  osk by recovering te fabled Rigt wat can we do wit a Red Moon csta. Yo did Move .  By  .  recover train? Drink    Move recoverte te crystal didnt yo? Sell? A Take    TAKE f not no matter yo can stil TRAANN yes and TR an d tere tere yo yo are delve into te seqel Te in Copenagen Cop enagen ready to catc crys crystal tal s most recent gardian  sorry ready to take te ferry ferry Mygl asdone doneaa Myglarte arte sorceror sorceror as to Iceland n d rofessor Hardwigg bnk aving drained te te cs o time to aste this month as not onl is the ne release from evel 9 at last here, Th   Pc o Mgk but BugBte has also released nothing less than a fourpart graphi adventure based on Jules Vernes Jouny o h Cn  o h Eh, and for the bargain prie of £2.99 £2.99 n the last olumn about ideas for adventure riting  men tioned the possibilit of adapting books inluding those of Jules Verne and I partiularl had this one in mind as its i ts alas struk me as having potential for be oming a great adventure. Unfounatel Unfou natel this i snt reall  it as although it looks im ressive on paper, it isnt exatl the toughest game oull ev ever er pla.     ta of mc of ts power in te ope of attai attainng  ng eternal yot. yo t. Yor task s to face p to Myglar defeat defeat im im  and take is place as rgtl gardian gardi an of te cystal. For all tese magical melo dramatics te game begins dinariy enog enog  wit yo ot orordinari side a manson wee a few vines grow p rond te front door toto te roof, and off to one sde is a woodsed and a pleasant sonding erb gar den. Hownceand Hownce and relaxing Not for ong as teres sometng nasty in te woodsed and te mandrake plant screams if yo try to plck it from te garden Doyo Do yo persst persst and rsk kll ing it? Wold ts consttte erb cide? nside te front door, pro vded yo can fnd a sorce of ligt (dont waste time looking for a swtc) is a postcard explaining tat del de liveries ave been sspended de to te mysterios dsappearance of several postmen recenty Glp Like Red Moon tis adven te allows yo to explore a vast nmber of locations witot necessarily aving to solve any problems oter tan a few at te sta Gong in trog te front door makes lfe sligty more difficlt in tat yore soonn ikel soo  ikely to enconter tngs yo woldnt n t want toenconter to enconter in a gloomy manson and a betterer bet s to make bett mak e yorway yor way to te roof and gater goodies along te way. Te baddies yoll enconter inclde skeletons werewolves and oter carmers and yo can coose yor tactics against tese. Yo cod try a fgt to te deat and ope it isnt yors. n fason yoave yo ave strengt points as do yor opponents so let battle com mence and may te stronger srvive An alternative s to try to make se of te magical to see f powerss of ceta power ceta n items, tosee yo can defeat yor adversar ies tat wayinfn wayinfnite itey better in te ong rn, bt wo can resst a good stragtfoard stragtfoard bas at a bloodworm? Magic can also be sed to elp yo solve some of te probems and reac oterwse nreacable obects and as beforee yo ave totofind befor find te rigt obect to work n conncton wit a pa partrtclar clar spell spell  to give  te most obvios example, wic wont spoi iti t too mc for anyone te broom s lnked to te FLY spell. Tis is te type of vast adventre tat Level  does best and te strctre of te adventre program as been improved in several ways. OOSS allows yo to take backa OO back a move if yo sddenly find yorsef facing a foe yod rater not face st yet or even f yo find yorsel yorself dead wil w ile RAMMSAVE obviosly saves RA yor progress instantly into memoy also sefl f faced wit a potential y risky action bt dont forget to save yo progress to tape from tme to time as well At one place n particlar  fond a combinaton of te OOS and RAMSAVE commands essential  do a RAMMSAVE as soon as yo RA reacte reac te Circlar Room From ere some of te passages are oneway and tey bid into a smal maze so t all te exits from eac locaton and OOS yor way back eac time so enabling yo to map te area ot more efficently. Te program also takes te mtitaskng approac tat was introdced wt The Wom n aadse so tat yo dont need to wat for te grapcs to fins  s drawng before yo yo enter yor text command and yo can stil switc te pctres off and on sng WORDS and  I C_TURES TUR ES if yo yo wis. I soon preferred to play sing WORDS as to be onest te pictres are noting to write ome abot  not tat yo codd do tat anywaywit tese co dsappearng delivery men A featre ofofte te MSX versio versionn is Lensok someting I cold ave well done witot. Tis doesnt appear at te start of te game as is sal bt for some reason  cant nderstand s placed at varios stages n te adventre nclding te pont were yo try to load a y to ae use o the aa oers to deeat your adversar adversaryy ese ho an  resst a ash at a oodor? saved game. If tis is meantas meant as an antipiacy device wy not st ave it once at te sta so no Lenslok means no play. Anyway even wit Lenslok yoll stl want to by tis latest test in te Level  lne at a price of £.5. (Tinks if te company called itself Level 8 wod t ten carge £885?). Zak Wood is dominating te postbag n paticar te wretced at of Eterna Sleep, and some wo ave received my ep seet ave written back to say tat te sotionto tion to tat probem doesnt work.. Al  can say work sayiis tat t does work for me. As soon as yo enter te pat type GET LEAVES ten tavel NORT,  EAST SOUTH, WEST EAST and yoll be trog Tat information will elp Ter Binns of Tanton and Alan Ateton  wat an Evans of Ateton alallliterative ot of eaders we ave. In te same game Robert Evans of Belfast asks ow e can get past te cottage wic n fact yo cant bt yo can go nto it to colect a few items (examine absoltely every ting) ten retn across te riverto er to negotiate te pat. I n Reun o Eden Alex Mead from Swndon needs to know were to find te dentit dentityy cad OHS OC EHT NO. Last time reader   Fitzgerald asked me abot Emead Ise and wat to do to te state to wc  said MRA STI LLU d idnt explain expl ain was exact exact Wat I didnt y o yo did tis. First yo KCOLB EHT NO DNATS, and ten yo Tl LLU DNA MR MRAA REVO EOR GNOL WORHT. In te same game as anyone anyone mapped ou+ te maze of stone passages? f so let me ear from yo I n assc Advenueo ossa Advenue Andrew Mooney from Gainsborog asks ow e can fnis te game wt al te treasres intact wen e as to gve one of tem p to te trol tro l to get past past t. Te answe to tat s tat tere is one treasre wic yo can someow reclaim tis beng SGGE NEDLOG EHT. To reclam t yo need to make a magic tterance not ncon nected wit te room in wic yo fnd tat teasre Bt no magc tterances needed to me retrn n te next make   sse promse. promse .      f you are ued to te famil ia bulk of an Epon or imilar dotmatrix printer ogging your dek pace pace you migt find iti t ard to take take ti little Broterr eriouly at firt. Brote firt. lt look too inubtantia to ome more obviou coice A cloer inpection owever reveal a very complete pecification in a unit wic occup occupie ie about onetird of te volume of more traditional printer Altoug Broter itelf decribe ttee 11  0 a idea for te maller buine uer it meet te need of ome computer uer even better Te price of £22 VAT bring it up to an unwieldly oundiing £28 7) get you ound many of te fixture and fitting tat come only a optiona extra on mot rival For ti price te 1 1 0 a bot parallel and erial interface terface MSX uer wil wi l be intereted mainly in te parallel inteace but toe wo opera operatete more tan t an one type of computer may find te RS22C erial inteace a uefu alternative Anoter feature for wic you would normal normallly expect to pay extra i te paper tractor mecanim Ti let you ue continuou pinfed paper wic i viuall y eential eential for printing out program liting t may m ay look like like a toy, but this printer combines high quality with low cost. to print out a etter on a ing in ge clear enoug reult and in eet of igerquaity paper, ti mode doe a paable ttee tractor mecanim can be imitation of te familiar Epon diconnected diconnec ted quick quick y and te MX/RX/FX family Effect like platen roler engage engagedd to fee feedd bold double trike, condened italic, enlaged, te paper by friction ubcript and upercri up ercript Te tractor mecani mecanim m itelf i te ource ou rce of our ony printing are all available reevation. lt i mainly platic troug variou control code or output wic need a bit and ligtly gtl y fuy about about te arranged. IfI f more cla, owever te NQ way te paper i arranged. you are uing a particularly mode greatly im prove prove te eavy tock of continuou uo u print quaity A a ample of tationery, it i wort tacking te print quality avaiabe in it cloe to te priter and ti mode, ut look at te enuring tat te printer doe doe program liting ection of ti not ave to ift it too far. iue. Te Teee were printed on Tere are two two main prin ting te Broter and reduced potograpical tograpically to 81 per mode draft and near letter po quality NQ) Te draft mode cent of teir original ize Te zip along at a claimed  00 quality i not quite up to te tandard but it i quite tandard acceptable for mot letter writing purpoe pu rpoe.. Grapic are catered for by a bitimage grapic mode wic i cer certainl tainly an area in wic te compatibiity wit Epon code pay off off a creen dum dumpp program program deigned for te Epon range will work wit te Brotertoo Broter too A 2K print buffer i incorporated into te printer Ti peed up many printing tak a ue of te computer i returned to te uer 208 208 caracter before te end of a printing tak If for any reaon you dont want te buffer b uffer perap becaue you want immediate printer control from te keyboard) it can be witced off uing te internal DIDIPP witce witce ce Mention of te D P witce bring to mind te inteligent poitioning of tee impoant device, ued for electing te etting wic te printer ued wen witced on or reet Some manufacturer manufacturer make you get out o ut your crewdriver and practically tear te unit to piece ut to alter a witc ettting On te e te 1 1 0 0 all you do i remove te clipon top cover and you are in buin e Te Brote Broterr 1 1 0 repreent good value for money and wit it compact compact dimenion dimenio n ould ceainly      .        Ne w software for the CXSM/1 pro�s Ya a ha 's  us usc c pack package age says Ken Gllett 8 Yamaha shoo he mus mus wod wh he noduon o s  snhesses usng a hhe o unnown un nown mehod o osound sound geneaon known as FM and norporang MII Oe year late t wa followed up wt te toduc to of a copute copyg wt te MSX tadad. lt coporated a FM yte eeodu appaet y ore odue wt appaety featue ta te DX9 yt but at ut over alf te prce e ad you ad a coputer tow  . Software wa avalable to acce te vocg paraeter of te yt al ow o te otor rate ta oe at a te o te X all LCD cee, akg progra progra g a lot eaer. We coected to oe of tee yt, te opto a uc keyboad could play te teal voce nd ay voce elected o te exte extealal yt.   te way to obta realy c ad teetg oud. But, ad t wa a bg but, te CX5 voce coud ot be payed fo te extera  ut. e CX5 wa ot utable fo ue a a expader odue, a everyoe oped t woud be. e oter aor drawback wa tat te oftwae car trdge would ot ue a d k a toage fo te ceato of te ue leavg tecoug tape a te oly alteatve. Yaaa ad tat t wa becaue te fa pecfcat ato for dk ue ad ot bee faed at te te of frt poducto ad we t wa, t ued oe of te ae e oy pace occuped by te Yaaa pogra.  a ow argey bee corected corect ed by te  toducto of a ew oud odue kow a a te SFG5 ad ew oftwae cartdge tat are dk co patble. e copay a ao adapted oe to oue co tol. I o ott cae cae te tyle ofof progra led tef to te ue of t polfc odet (I w I could ue te oe y cat brg  but I cat ee to ft te   te oytck po ad we you wat to ue te, teyve ru off). Ufortuatey te DX7 vocg pogra  yet to be updated fordk ue wc  a pty ce t  a ge. Oe rrtatg apect ofof al t t  wc  boud to aoy CX5 ower  tat t wl cot  te regoof  of £2 to repace te od equpet wt te ew ad wae ad oftwae, oftwae, we w e argu ably t oud ave bee up to t pecfcato  te ft pace. We ug ew equpet for te frt te, oe ould aual ft. awaycoult ay coult te aualf A quck perual ow tat te SFG5 aual  aual  a uc bette betterr offeg ta tat provded fo te SFG SFG11  wt plety of daga, ga , cree dplay ad ad explaato wee ece ary Ayoe fala r wt te old odule ou  oud ave o dffcul ty wt t oe, epecal y ce te d play are uc eaer toto ue ad ore logcaly ad out May opeato ae caed out by ovg te poter ad crollg te dplay up ad dow te cree by te ue of te up ad dow curor key curo key e eft ad gt curokey are te ued to alter te ettg ad te ft key ca alo be ued to ceae te peed at wc te cage  ade. I t way te rgt paeter avalabe ca be quckly dlaye d layedd ad et. e ot  portat prove et  t ew odule  te way te voce ca be played by te CX5 uc keyboard or by a extea yt. e od odule ad te abty to pay ocebut egt ote atat oce but oly oe voce at a te, weea te ew ut ca pay up to fou voce at oce f cotroled fo a exteal keyboad.  allow oly two ote to be played at oce but f oly two voce are ayeed, te four ote ca be played ul taeouly. We played fo te CX5 uc keyboard te axu  two voce wt fou ote avaable ava bl e for eac, but tere ae ay perutato ad co bato  wc t ca be cared out. e ue of te fucto ke ae clealy abelled o cree - M M SOFTWARE FROM M     BUSINES UTILITES U UTILI TES U     U           BUSINESS koso Acko Ack o Pre Presto sto Disc (card fllng)   .  .  .  .   Ackoe Ack oext DS (Cass & Dsc)             Ackobase lDS (Cass & Dsc)         .    Computemtes MSX Text (WP & Cards) new        .  Cash Aouns  ..... ...    .   .          Spreadshee    .  .  .   .  .                . .  . . . . .   .  . . ..      £3590 £35 £35 £4650 £89  £35 Communcaons Commun caons   . . . £3500 The Seretay . . . .  £9500 . Communcatons RS232   . £9500  Secrea + RS232 . . . . . £8900 RS232 Cable  £1395 . ..  Communcaons modem    £22095 Mento M Base (Database) . . . .   . £3595 Kuma WDPro (Cass). . .    £2795 Kuma WDPro (Dsc)   £3500 Kuma Home udge . . . £135 Kuma Database (Cass) . . .    . . £18 Kuma Database (Dsc)        £35 Kuma Spreadsheet (Cass) . . . . . . £795 Kuma Spreadsheet (Dsc) .. £3500 Kuma Communcaons £800 Kuma RS232 Inteace  . £9500 MST-Calc (Spreadshee) .   .  .   . . £1395 MST Daabase  .    . £395  MS Home Accounts . . .  .  . £1395 MST nvoce Satemens  .  . £1395 MST usness Accounts . . . ...  . .   £1395 MST Mailer  ..  . .  . . .. .. . .  £1395 MST Soc Sock k Conr Conrol ol  . .. . £395         . . . . .                          +                                                                                                                                                 &                                   80  8 80    UTIIIES HSoft Pasa . .    £2795 HSot Devpac  .            £750 HSot HS ot Devpac (Dsc)         .      £3500 HSot Pascal (Dsc)                £3500 HSo Ed (Dsc)      . .  .    ..  . £850 Kuma Zen Machine Code System      . .               £1850 Kuma Zen Machne Code System (Dsc)       £3695 Kuma Logo          .  £1850 Kuma Foh    ..  ..    .   .  .  ..    .  £3695 Kuma Foh (Dsc)     .  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Te overall m  presson press on of ts nt s te vast mprovementnt n ts capabltes mproveme and ease of se over te prevos one. Wt f 11 M I D I mplementaton ts s now an acceptable stand alone synt or compter or an excelent expanderr modle expande modl e for an exter nal synt sc as aYamaa a Yamaa DX nt FUS  F S STES TESSS Anyone who stens to the rado has heard the express express ons AM and FM. These stand for Amptude Modulaton and Frequency Modulaton and the FM used when talk ng about sound synthess s just about the same Modulaton s the process of changng a sgnal AM changes the volume of the wave and FM changes the ptch. Conventonal synthess ers use oscllators whch can only produce smple wave forms such as square squar e waves waves trangular waves and sne waves These are then fl tered to leave a waveform as close as possble to the orgnal orgn al beng coped. Ths Ths s known as subtractve synth ess and s not a true repre sentaton of how natural sounds are created When a note s played on an acoustc nstrument the sound created created s a combna combna  ton of many sne waves o derent frequences but wthn defned relatonshps known as harmoncs. These sne waves modulate each other resultng n a very compex combned wave form the exact shape of whch gves the lstener the tone colour or tmbre As one wave s appled to another t modulates the requency of that wave as well as alterng the tone and hence ths s known as addtve or FM synthess. Ths method would then seem to be a more natural one for the synthess of acoustc nstrument sounds and has been put to good eect n amahas X range of synths and of course the C sound module where several oscllator outputs are combned n a varety of user defned paerns known as algorthms Sce amaha owns the world rghts to ths process noone s lkely to copy them exactly. The success of ths formu la s ndcated by the pre sence of a DX7 n the hard ware used by vually every perormng band n the UK UK ust watch   h   but as yet t fals to produce the raunchy synth sound easly produced by more conventonal unts. Wth the enormous number of com bnatons of settngs aval able on these nstruments maybe t s smply s mply that no one has yet come up wth the rght one. FM Vocng Program  or ser created ones or a mxtre of bot Wt no oter major dffer ences ts remans an m proved bt stl relatvely ser ostle program Ts s te mostdffcl most dffcltto se of all te t e programs now aval avalable from Yamaa bt t s essental f yo want to create new voces for te sond modl mod le. oadng s not atomatc wen bootng p and te "call fmv command mst be sed Ts as certan advantages wen ts program s nstalled n te new new CXMI CXMI  Te major fnctonal dffer ences are tat dfferent prnters (Epson compatble or MSX) e data can can be sed and vocedata now be saved to dsk Te strctre of te program as been mproved p roved wt more ep mens and easer to nder stand commands. Tere are fve command lsts or elp and twodsplay pl ay screens. pagesand pages EDT sows all te vocng parameters for te voce selected or beng created created.. DRECTORY lsts all voces crrently avalable for play or edt.T edt. Ts can be system voces FM Musc Composer Ts was anoter program tat sffered badly from lack of dsk storage and as been pgraded totocorrect correct ts as well aswell as ncldng mose compat blty famlar wt te msc Tosefaml Tose composer wl know tat t allows te ser to enter notes on a staff dsplayed on screen and play back 8 separate parts smltaneosly Ts as not canged bt te program now contans several new featres Almost eve fncton can be carred ot sng te mose Ts speeds p note entry and selecton of some commands bt oters are easer to set sng te keyboard Tere are two ep/command mens from wc te mose can select te rereq qred red fncton fncton As n te earler verson notes can be entered from from te QWERTY or te msc keyboard bt now an external ynt can also be sed wt te data transmtted va MDI Vrtally al mscal peorm peorm ance data sc as tempo note engts, crescendo and repeat can st 11 be entered bt now beset portamentocan be set for mono parts and f te new CXMI s sed te amont of data tat can be stored s ncreased by te se of dfferent memo banks layback as also been gven an pdate by allowng wngt to sta from a selected pont nstead of always from te was extreme begnnng, wc wasextreme ly tresome wen ceckng long peces Anoter areaof area of cange s te prntng faclty wc now allows for MSX or Epson com an d tree dffe patble prnters and rent types of prntot bold wt fl screen dsplay on one lne te normal densty verson of above, and a trd mode wc wc s prnted as dsplayed pl ayed wt two lnes e s on screen represe represented nted as t e page Unfort Unfort two nes on te nately te frst of tese settngs wt te MSX prnter selected, tred to prnt dobe wdt and not doble densty wc re slted n garbage Te MSX prnter codes are evdently stll nrelable However, te second settng was qte sats facto tor r. X dtor Not for te fantearted sms p te program tat nteaces wt te Yamaas Yama as RX range of dgta drm macnes Ts s not for foolng arond bt for te seros constrcton of nt qal rytm tracks ofsffc of sffcentqal ty for se n a professonal recordng stdo Yamaa sells tree drm macnes wt dgtaly sam pled sonds te RX21 RX1 andd RX  n ascendng an ng orderof  cost ad eates The adve tsg leaflet dcates that the X edto wl cto wth al o these t the X 21 was ot to e fod o the teal lst o  the eclosed osed maal maa l ke the X sths these dm maches have a small C o the to face whch s extemell lmted  the amot exteme o fomato that t ca ds la Ths ogam ts t al togethe o the g scee ad wth excellet mlemetato o the mose geatl smes the t  t o data g  g the ogam s t atedom ated om Basc  "call X ad the M M Set  st  st the e selected Thee s a choce o twosstems two sstems wth owthot o wthot a exteal sth o the t o toch sestve ote data av g chose t s tme to have a ash st we mst ceate a hthm atte sg the avalale  stmets as lsted o scee ad acg them the m exact whee eed wth mose o kes Pattess ca also Patte al so e ceated  eal tme  httg the st met keso kes othe the X tsel  the Muscal Instrument gtal Inteace sounds qute a mouthful doesnt t? In fact lt s not reall as complcated as t sounds MII Is standard communcatons protocol for electronc muscal nstru ns tru ments These are generall keboard snthessers but there are some some gu tar snths avalable To understand what nformaton can be transferred transf erred from one muscal musca l devce to another we need e of ledge owledg know some basic kn some how a modern snth oper ates For the sake of argu ment we shall restrct ths to keboards The Instrument wl a lwa lwas s consst of a sound generat ng sstem a controllng keboard and a modfcaton secton whch ma be set or controlled durng a peorm ance Snce man controls have to be set just to create one sound the majort of snthessers now have memor banks so that the derent sounds (or voces can be recalled at the touch of a buon For man ears the sound eed hthm feet at tes ca the e lked to as whch jo to om a sog Movg at the ogam om scee to scee s sm lct tself  selectg the eed co wth the mose ata ca e saved to tae catdge dsk o to the X1 tselflf Sce the 15 tse 1 5 ad 2 we weee ot sted esma the caot  sed   sed as stoage The edtg eates aval ale ad the wa the sog sog ca e elaed wth eeats ad vaatos  temo toe ad volme make ths a extemel comehesve comehe sve ackage ad a mst fo aoe who wshes to ogam oe of the X maches Md eco ecorder rder Ths s aothe ogam fo the dedcated msca ad ot al oscllator whose ou put frequenc (ptch s gov erned b an appled voltage suppled b the keboard The vual Industr In dustr standard one volt per octave has Man snths were therefore thoughull suppled wth eternal connectons (n & out for ths control voltage CV and the on/o pulse known as AT Ths gave a measure of compatblt between d rent unts snce the sound module of one could be controlled controll ed b the keboard of another or b a sequencer whch s a devce able to record the CV and AT nformaton and pla the sequence back so that the snth would pla a seres of notes These devces are used etensvel In the pla ng n g and recordng of modern musc  Some manufacturers e panded ths prncple a lttle fuher to enable more con trol but lt alwas fell sho of provdng the complete answer wth full fu ll control over the performance features to e tfed wth The aot ad cotol o ths ackage ae ve smla to the X Edto Oce aga the se o the mose seeds  the ocess of eteg data   the majo majot t of cases ad exeece wll soo tell whe t s faste to se the keoad keoad   the t he same wa that the X Edto has attes ad as to make  a comete sog, the M ecode has tacks ad aks to cha togethe The fo tacks ca e ecoded dvdall  eal tme la ad oced g o  stetme tmead togethe as o a mttack mttacktae tae ecode Each ca e set to eceve the data va a dffeet Mchae M chae hece a dffeet dffeet stmet stm et  eed. A meto meto ome lse s avalale t ol thogh the moto seake seake oweve  mlt mode s seected whe the tacks ae comed each of the ogal tackss wl stl tack st ll o la o the M chael M cha el ad theeoe theeoe o the stmet sed fo the t eve thogh the ae all comed oto oe tack Ve cleve that ad ow thee ae apponted snthesers  Then came MII The n dust fnall decded on a standard control stem whch would be able to trans mt control data for an feature Incorporated In a MII equpped nstrument lt Is n fact analagous to the S232 po on man mlcros In that t can be programmed to transmt and receve data relevant to that pacular machne MII data s also alwas sent n a seral stream lt also Incorporat Incorporates es a clock sgnal for snchronsaton of derent devces on pla back and can be transmtted and reved on an of 6 selectable channels MII Is now a d igu ftment for todas electronc muscal Instrument and the al l have MII IN OUT and THU sockets The THU socket merel sends on the Informaton receved from the IN socket so that man MII devces can be strung together  selectng de rent channels on dfferent Instruments each can be set thee sae tacks ead fo fhe eco ecodg dg The edtg ctos leave othg to e desed wth extesve cotol ove ote temo vol vo lme etc so ostotemo osto thee ae o excses fo ot ceatg efect sogs raphc Ast Ad ow fo somethgcom somethg com letel dfeet Ths s othg to do wth msc ad ma aeal to the astc eade. Althogh the maal states that the mose s otoal t wold e foolsh ot to make se o t avg sad that the mose cold e ette m lemeted AlAlll me selectos ae e fomed  choosg a co t thee s o ote o mose cso oe sml scols the mose to left o ght ad the leshadg le shadg jms jm s fom co toto co No altogethe satsfac to t oce the dawg stas the ote s thee ase as e o sh o whateve the chose mlemet Staght les fee had ectages cces vaos tes of shadg MSX gahcs chaactes two stles o alhaet ad mscal ota to ack to that aga ae all thee to e sed  the th e costc costc to o a masteece masteece  avg ceate ceatedd o Pcas Pcasso so lookalke o ca stoe t  memo tl eed whe t wll eda edaww tself o tl ow owee of whcheve s the sooe Pemaet stoage s otaed  the se of the tos cassette tae o a flo dsk athe stagel t wl ol oad safel o a esded dsk so dole sglesded oes shol sho ld e fomatted fomatted sdedoes sded accodgl o those who oght the CX5 at the fal kockdow ce the elatvel smal exta otla ovdes a emakale mscalal too at a facto of the msc cost of stadaloe ts ot ol a mscal st met t also a vesatle ® X      £8 £8 .        OP O P  H PAA BOA (Cariage (Car iage and I nsur nsurance ance £1 0. 00) Y CAN 'T N A ERNA CMTER THA CME ANY AN YHERE HERE NEAR NEAR T  T R THE RCE!  er eree ar a re some of the feat featrres at an a n ama a mazizing ng price of 999 Ke boa Separate Type, Full Stroke,  Keys, Memo1 RAM 48K, RO ROM M 40 40KK Cyind Cyi ndrcal rcal Step Scuptur Scu ptured ed Key Tops DisPay_ Text, Graphcs, 1  Colou, 2 Sprtes, Sou n d :  Voce ( 8 octave pus p us 1 nose, 8 Externa erna Stere Stereoo Audio Audio n put Sgn Sgna a S RGBB Output RG Output ( 8 Colou ), Super Im po pose se Mode Mode,, enveopes, Ext nternal Sereo Sereo Speake Head phones Ster Stereo eo Jack. 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My Acces cesss  Vis Visaa 0 N o is I .I I ..... . .... .... .  .. .......... . .... .......... .... .. .. .  . ... ... .... ... . ..... .. .....   . ........ ....  � N ame . Add ress .     Finding information on dis di sk systems can be harder than buying one. By A/a Wood ere have been man ariles in va rious ompuer magazines explainng how daa is sored on disk and going on abou raks se ors direories and so on. Praial informaion abou how o auall use a disk ssem is less eas o find. This aile ses ou o help hose who wan o use disks on an MSX mahine no onl  for running exising sof ware bu also o wrie prog rams speifi speifiall all for use wh disk ssems. A disk drive for MSX is not chea, and this is a ajor reason wh the havent exact l taken off in the K K.. he high cost lies artl in the fact that the dis k drive aso contains the disk controler eectronics, with its own dedicated icro rocessor chi, the disk asic int/ott sste BIOS) and MSX isk  isk Basic itsel itself his lot is si lgged in to an exansion slot, connected to s  and awao awa o the ains s go eeer thogh that a dis k sste neds at east 1 6K of ser AM availale in the coter Soe achines see to need ore however  PX7 for exale needs a fl 64K efore it wil l work his sho Id e verified efore sho rchase of the disk drive. Having got this far o are confronted with isk Basic his is exact the sae as MSXX BASC t with a few MS additions necessar to access the disk sste. he owners handook slied with the disk drive shod descrie all the extra coands Essen tialll lthe th e are forforatting new disks, reading the director, loading and rnning rogra es, coing, renaing and deleting files and reading and writing inforation to and fro fro the disk. Files stored on a disk can have naes with  to eight characters ls a three charac charac ter fie extension he file extension is ver sef for classifing files nto tes. For exae EMOFILE EMOFILE BAS BAS is a file caled caled "EMOFE "EM OFE writ ten in Basic o therefore know that it st e LOAed, if the fie was in achine code then it a e of te .BIN inar) in which case it wil need BLOA instead ata, which is sal sed  another roga ight e of te A and so on hese extensions can e anthing o liket ke t it is a good idea to do the sae as other sers to avoid confsion. Issing the co and FILES will rint on the screen a colete ist of the fies on disk together together with their file tes tes.. Yo wil qickl want to co or rogras fro cassette tae to disk and for Basic files this is qite eas. Lets asse o have a Basic rogra on cassette caed EMO rans fer it to disk ike this: CLOA CL OA MO MO"" Switch on the recorder and the coter shold soon re sond with the ailit to write rogras which can access ass stor Found:MO age easi and qick. A sing After loading o wil get the lesided  inch disk can hod failiar OK ess essage age ot o t it a assive 360K or so he dedicated dedic ated Basic rograer ack on to the disk te need read no frther nless he SAV MO.BAS is of a crios disosition and Notice we sed the file exten wonders if soething etter sion  BAS to reind s that it is ight e his for the taking. So far the oerating environ a Basic rograe Machine code rograes ent has een Basic. hat is are siilar t rel on o Basic has rovided facilities not aread knowing the start, start, end en d jst for rograing t aso and exection addresses. Lets for handing disks, rinters and asse o have a achine varios other hosekeeing rogra was was code file called BLOO which dtie s. Even if the rogra startsataddres sta rtsataddresss &H8000, ends written not in Basic itself t in at &H87FF and rns fro achine code, and was de &H8050 ransfer it to disk like signed to rn via Basic sing this: the BLOA coand it is said to e rnning nder Basic BLOA CAS:BLOO here is another environ Switch on the record recorderer and the ent avaiale to the disk ser si  a disk oer oeratin atingg coter wil soon resond caled si with sste OS). his is a rog ra secificall written to FoundBLOO rovide an interface etween After loading o wil get the the coter hardware and the failliar fai ar OK' essage o o send send ser ser//rorograer graerllt handesa s a it ack to the disk se things connected with disks, the text screen keoard, in SAVBLOOBIN t/ott ots, realtie &H8000,&H87FF &H8050 cocks etc, and akes access Now o have a diskased to these facilities eas and eqivalent of or cassette convenient for the rogra sste with all the seed and er er.. Progras written to rn convenience that rings and nder a disk oerating sste ·-: ' �.. 1 wi  inera wh it in an effiient anner o gve peedy reu. A ajor advantageof advantage of a DOS i that oeone ele ha done aa he wor neea o iner ae with your paiuar ae ae o oputer hu n theory a lea)your a) your progra wl  run on oeone ee ahne pro vided ony that he ha the ae DOS, and ha you have fol owed the rule propery when writng your progra here are any a ny di di  ope ra ing yte avaiable all offer ng dferen feature but aall doing undaenally he ae ob. he wo o inere to ue are SDOS and CP/. e eve it or no nether h er ee toto be oera y avaiabe n he   lt appear appear that hey eiher oe prepaaged wh a oplee di ye or you have to peter your upp up p er or d drive anufaurer or a opy.CP/wri opy. CP/writen by Digita Reerh ha been around or a ong e and i very popuar. l ha an enorou library of publi doain not ubjet o opyrigh) ofware available to run under i. he e y oo appea to ye o iey S uer however i S DOS. hi  a tripped down, eight bi verion of i  iroof SDOS and  ao vey iiar o CP/. Indeed any CP/ progra wi run under SDOS without odifa ton. SDOSS expe SDO expe afu6 a fu6 of RA to be avaiabe in he oputer I your ahine doenboat doen boat ha aoun hen a 32 RA expanion ar rdge i uually al that  required whih plug diretly no another expanion lot. eer ount your lo fir hough you have aready ued one for he di drve and now anoher or RA  you wl require ore youl need a lot expanion odue. SDOS oni o wo fle le SDOS.SYS SDOS.SYSand and CO AD.CO. When he o puer  wthed on or he RESE buon i preed, a OO loader  whih  reden on ra ero etor ero of evey evey di pu there by he forater)   autoa aly oaded and run lt in turn oo for for a ie aledSDOS d SDOS .SYS and if found load i in and run it . Ater eti eting up he DOS environent COAD CO  autoaially oaded and hi provide he uer nefae. I ob i to interpret oand gven to  by he and arry the ou uerand uer Flenae in SDOS  have he ae peiiaion a thoe wih D ai and ing he  he dire di reto toyy wi dplay he ie nae, ype extenon  e of fle, date and tie of reation. Dae and te are ueu  if you are deveoping or updatng fle, it enable you to eep tra of the late veron wthouthaving hout having o deee old fle or reeber dieren ie nae. I a oand i given o the DOS whih it doen under tand,, it i paed on toto the di tand ef. Any file on he urrent whih have been given he diwhi di ype exenion  CO are on dered to be extenion of the DOS oand lit, o if a ie exi wh the uregnied oand nae it wil be loaded and run hu, to run a ahine ode prograe of type .CO COand) you iplynae iply nae it pre RER and heypre heypreo o OfoureheDOS Ofourehe DOS wil per you o run any anguage you hooe. here i a ful 6 of RA avaiiabl ava able. one habeen ha been pnhed foforr ai and you are free o oad aeber, o pier, nerpreter word pro eor preadheet or any thng ele you wan. If or exaple you load Paa then you wl nauraly wre your progra in Paa, Paa , ut a you you did wh a a.. he opier elf run SDOS bu you wont underSDOS under even noie. A good opier wil e you reate and alone' progra of ype CO whih you an ubequen ubequen y run wih ou Paa beng oaded. You an pa your wor on o oher SDO S DOSS uer who need need not even now he progra orgi orginn aed in Paal at all. Wriing progra in ahine ode an be vey rewarding. l per you to reain in aboute onrol of your oputer at all ie wihou beng retried by he litaion of a high evel lan guage Sall rouine an o oure be writen drey by hand aeb a ebing and ypin ypingg i in uing a hex loader oader  whh h ould be writen n ai, but he ahine evel prograer will quily reale tha he need the onveniene of an aebler. Founaely for the  S uer a riih opany  Hiof  ha produed a u perb aro aeber debuggerr and a togeherwiwith  debugge togeher full ex editor he oplee paage i aled EVPA80 and i avaiable at 39.95 I anno reoend hi de velopent paage oo highy i i vey profeiona o plete wel douened and even ha a tutorial for begn ner n additon it oe on di opee with a free opy of h laet verion of S hiol DOShi DOS olve he probe o nonavalabil bil y entioned ear ier. Indentaly SDOS  alo upplied ith heir PAA and  opier. he editor, ED80.CO i a peaure to ue. 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Ky Ky                  .         895 Zppe Zppe  .... 395 Zods          8 95 37 lgh Smuao               995 O 750 750 750 2400 750 5:50 750 750 700 600 1 6 60 0 600 60 550 700 750 000 550 00 250 700 750 250 700 350 650 700 RRP cridges Ye A Kung Fu               .     .  1495 YeA Y eA Kun Kungg 2    .                   1495 Socce ... 495 Png Pong                        .      1495 Hype Raly Raly                          .   1495 Hype Spos 1  495 Hype Spo Hype Spos2 s2                        495 ac  ackk & F Fe ed 1  495 ack & Fed 2                         1495 Roadghte                           495 Boxng                                   1495 Sky agua                             1495 Tenns                                   495 MonkeyAcademy                     1495 Athetc Athe tc and                           495 Comc Bakey                          495 Kg's Valey                           4.95 Ccus Chale Chale    .                   495 U 1250 1250 250 250 250 250 250 2.50 250 250 1250 1250 1250 250 250 250 250 250 Koaml RM RRP DOMINOS First out and tradtonal threes and Fives. Multievel play with 'cheat option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £5 £ 5  95 GNOGRAMS A game of speed and word recognition for one to four players. Two pay-levels, 3 1 topics and over 1 , 70 randomy etter-shuffled words HOTSHOT Arcade shootng gaery for one or two payers comprsing co mprsing Rovng Target, Snap Shot, Duck Shoot, Cay Pigeon and the utimate Rear Gunner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .  . . . £595 * * * * All 3 gam gam   6 (al on separate cassettes) verses ver ses dd   Prices icude P&P MO KNIX FT\RE 71 Park Road, Downend Bristol BS16 5L BS16  5LQ Q Te : (027 (0272) 2) 571 67 679 9 rade enquiries welcome SROUS SOFTWARE 1 28 Tired of waitn waitn g for tapes o load - transfe transferr hem to disk. Faciies incude Directo to detai a Basc machine code fies etc on the dsk. Swtch on and Run a chosen program wth Auto Run. Exceen Cassee o Dsk utty Loads 6K n just eght System em for any seconds! Fas and reiable 128 Disk Syst MSX compute wih Knight Commander, Expe Machine Code As Assembler/Dis-as sembler/Dis-assembler sembler  0 MSX p ro gams  .  .   .  .  .  .   .    .     .  .  .  .   .  .   .  .   .  .   .    TOSHIBA HX22 44K mico, butn RS232 R. G .   I vdeo wo cartrdge sots. Supped wth 6 programs nc: Typing Mahs Vicious Vper Cave Adventue Soitaire Othelo Smashout etc + ou  special Basc uoa The WHAT MSX evew said "builin Wod Pocesso is the best we've seen on MSX . . the bestt micro to come out of the MSX fod"               . bes SUPERD ERDEA EALL  HX HX22 22 wth 7 progams + HX22 SUP Machne Code, Assemble, Knght Commander, Dsassember Stock Conto Accounts and Data base 10. 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CR CRLL s e HELP key and provdes a lst of a commands and op ons on sceen n case you foget. l s moe logca o use CRLH nsead ese canges also alte e HELP fle so ae auomacally n corpoaed no you own pe sona veson.   Assembler e assember GEN80. COM uses standad Zog Z80 mnemoncs and standad pseudo ops. Macos ae sup poed as ae amec ope aors, assembly commands and oponal assemby. ny one wo as used a good assembler before wl uckly feel at ome w GEN80 GEN8 0 e debugger MON80.C OM povdes e usual range of commands and facltes and ncludes a labeln g dsassemb assemb le wc w l eassemble wt ou modfcaton usng GEN80. Debug monors fo me ae always to cutered on e sceen and rey on avng to emember oo many eccentrc commands. s one s no ecepton and I wl certa certanlyl y be wtng my own. Havng sad at, MON80 s vey poweul and wl pem rapd debugg debuggng ng of pogammes. s debugges go  s among te bes Ive seen, and w w  be eney sats facory fo aall bu e mos fussy. How to start So muc fo te tools of e ade bu ow do you sa? MSXOS provdes a sandad se of IOS access outnes o enable your pogrammes o ak to e compute compute  adwae (va te DOS of couse). o use ese ese routnes, smp s mpy pu te roune numbe n e C egste, nalse any oe egstes as approprate and cal e basc dsk opeatng system (OS) enty pont a oca caon 0005H. Fo eampe f youwaned you waned to wre a caacte to te sceen smpy pu e SCII cod codee of e caace n egste E, load C w e numbe 2 (consoe outpu) and CLL 005H. Routnes aval abe andle npu and output fom e consoe, (sceen, keyb ke yboard, oard, pne), andl a ndl ng / pots, dsk access fo eadng and wng and so on.  Most of tese are e same as CP/M wc eplans wy CP/M sofware can be used, sometmes w no modfca on MSXDOS povdes a few ea outnes to ande date and me and one o wo ote mno ngs. ey aeal ae al sed n e MX ehna ata Book MSXDOS (o CP/M for a a mater) does no offe any means of accessng MSX macnespecfc fac fac es suc as grapcs, coou sound, joyscksetc. ks etc. s  s a ffrs seems o spel dsaser bu a s no los If you were o wte macne code prog progams ams unde Dsk asc you would need o access a wole ost of IOS routnes povded for your use between addresses 0000 and about 0 56H. e IOS s pa pa ofe  6K sandad asc ROM suppled wt your macne and occupes te boom 8K of memory space. Here are found IOS ounes to do amos anytng you coud ws for. ut MSXDOS epects al 64KK of memory o be RM so 64 te OS ROM mus be swtc ed out of ccu If only t wee wee possble o use tese routnes unde te DOS envronmen Wel , you can e secret secret es n swtcng slos. e 64K of memoy space can be made up of several smal cunks of memory n dffeen slots, te compuer keeps abs on wc so ods wc cunk of memoy and wee  goes n e memory map, but you can tell e compute o cange t. s means ta aloug you ave al 64K as RM, you can tempoaly sw swtc te fss 1 6K ou (wout osng any ofof your memoy conens) and swc OM w a all n te asc ROM mporan IOS. Havngdone g doneta ta you ae fee to call any IOS routne you coose and ten swc back to RM as f nong ad ap pened,, ecep tat youve been pened abe to use e ful facles povded w te macne. Dased clever ese Japanese s bt of magc s done as folows L A  P wre P o e sceen addess ess ofof L IXA add CH PU IOS roune ne L IY ;IOS ROM so numbe CALL00 C ;pefom an nerslo cal ;est of pogram I beeve an owner as e g o epec access to suff cen nfomaon for m o be able o make ful use of s purcase Snce purcasng an MSX compue, my own un for dealed nformaton as been ong and raumac ee ae stl many fun damental uesons wc re man unanswered but ee are some nuggets wc I ope opew w elp te eader o realse moe of e powe of s mac mac ne. Macne code pogams de sgned to run unde Dsk asc mus be locaed above ROM space, e at ocaon 8000H or ge MSXDOS pogams oweveavng e fu64K avaabbe  usually run run fom fom address addre ss 0 H If you want to use your assemble unde MSXDOS o produce pog ammes ntended o un unde Dsk asc (e. usng e LOD,R command)  s not suffcent us o elocate t ge  e n memo memoyy befoe befoe com mtng t to dsk. e fes fo asc and MSXDOS are stoed dffeently on te dsk and one canno read e oter Investgaon oweve eevea veas at e on o ny dffe d ffeence ence s a asc bnary fles (no mally saved usng SVE) ave addona nformaton pu on e fon of e fle. If you know wat wat asc epects ten t s smple to put n tese etra bytes usng te assembler. Now t s possble for you to wte macne code programs under MSXDOS wc are ntended to un under Dsk asc. Remembe oweve a e DOS en pont at locaon 0005H s no avalable to ese progams and you wl need to access e IOS ounes dec d ectltly (see below). here are ot of contro code in the ASCII chaacter et which can be en o he ceen or pne  woth noing oe of the the CRL 03 retrn direcy C o MSX DOS CRL 07 beep G CRL I 09 tab in 8 chaact e inera feed CRLJAH in e feed CRL BH hoe the K cro CR CH cear L the ceen CRL DH caiage M retrn (RE RN key) Mo MSX BIOS oi o ine ae we enogh docented bt at ea one i noiceabe by  abence  PHYDO which which i theon the ony one proided to acce the dik yte! Fig 1 gie the copete detai a fa a 1 know the. I approached y dik ye anfacrer o proide dik acce inora tion reaing o the dik BOS ROM Accodiding Acco ng o he h e   ech nca ata Book thee ae ppoed  ppoed to be ade pbic which I ndetand to ea  they hod be aaiabe to owne. I wa od to contact Mcoof oof abot he aboe enioned book whee 1 wa ared a he infoaton 1 reqired wa o be fond Not o! he ony reference o he rotne PHYDIO decribe biefy what what i dow. here i no inforaion at a abot how o e it. nde MSXDOS there ae no probe becae a the reqied ca are aai aaiabe b e ia he BOS, bt wha abot dik acce acc e o achne ach ne code pog ra nde Dik Baic? t a e we being abe to write poga pog a fo ohe who don hae MSXDOS to e bt if hee ae no proper BIOS oine to hande fie, they can do anything ch a a. hee ca are aaiabe in yor copter b whee are they? PHYDIO enered by CALL 0 44H ead and wre toto and fro he dik drie Inp Paraete B = nber of ecor to be read or writen C  foa ype (ay F8H) DE tart ecto nbe HL RAM detinaion or oce A = drie nbe (defa die) Cary fag et = WRIE opeation eqired Cary ag eet = READ operation reqied Fg 1  how to e e he he BIOS enty point fo di c acce hee are few orce of MSX inforation of the kind efered to in thi arice. A a Baic oe are qie we caere caeredd fo a ae graphc e (proiding i ng hey e Baic of coe) he bet book  arond i he Compete  Pogammes Gude hi gie faiy copete infoa ton on Bac and  ch thing a BIOS eny pon hook addee, RAM yte addree and intena code. he   book conain the ogina orce code o he MSX BIOS ROM. hi t be e in eeting bt b t at he price ,itoethng of a xy. Fin a y I hae witen ten aipe p e proga to rn nde MSX ppoe ito i to DOS (iing 1 ) t ppoe deont de ontae ae he way rogra are writen in thi enironent and how to e eera of the BOS enry poin. A the progra doe i o retn the ASCC I I code of any key peed. AS peed. ha ight not ee ery ef bt y eeng the effec o key ch a CODE CODE GRAPH or any oher pecia key which yo ay hae hee igh be ef in yor own progra Reference he compete   Pogam mes Gude by . Sao, P Maptone I Mie fo Me borne Hoe (Pbihe) (Pb ihe) Ltd Ltd Cae Yard Hoe, Cate Yard, Richond W10 6F  echnca ata Book Prce£0 Prce £0 p  £ poagero poage ro Microoft rooft Ltd. Ltd.,, Exce Hoe, 49 De Monfo Road, Reaing, Berkhie RG 1 8LP book. Pice£30p £ potage fo Microof Ld (addrere aboe) (add or  or MSX wh MSX DOS. 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I'll how ou ou . .  • How to et u p our offic offic at hom ho m • How to kep record nd tbult l. • ow to obtain obtain FREE d in maazins. • How to choo  nne or our buine You' Yo u'     rceiv rceiv • A complt it of the mor profitb mi ordr mgzine. • Ho How w to inrt our d in mgzin or nw par • Saml a tht ou cn u nd moify to our our own nd • A lit of uggtd .ubjct for our bokt. 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In aition to our detailed escr escriptio iptionn of each progam we use a star rating system, evaluating games on graphics, sound value fo money an our overall verict Where a use of ating is not applicable ating sound in a wordprocessor for inst ance the rating i s given as N/A N/A STAR RATNGS * Not worth the trouble * * Acceptable but nothing exciting * * * One of the bes bestt {] f o have eve eve eved R Ewg ad all the t he t he famos soa oeas oeas the ol aos i the theol BB C o ca have a fcti fctitoal oa l taste o the BBC of the good lfe wth Aackosofts latest MSX tite Geolgsts have located oe ofthe agest ol deosts  oth Ameica o o lad A o have ha ve to do is extact the oil fom the ofts o god sell t ad sqade o ofts fes ltte xes Sods eas t it ist Al the othe oil aos ae jealos of o foe ad the wil l do athg ath g to saotage o oeatio Scatteed aod o oil fed ae oozes wil wecko mes whch wilweck a ad meswhch o dl d llg eqmet eqm et Theolwatostotheotheaosfom cheatg o ot of o mllios is o fight ack Theoozes The oozeswll gole  o elie t ca stothem hem ckg ckg  as ma dil oca o ts as ossile ot o do o get moe ots t the oozes ae destoed  these Ateative o ca ga a etomi a age oi gget whch wil sow the oozes dow ad gve o moe tme to collect the ol elets t e qck t doest last log ad thees o oe o each level Oce advace to ext ove got got al the t he ellets o advaceto feld ad oce ove woked o wa thogh al eght felds o ca sel o oil _ Oil's Wel s ased o the acman theme t oce o sta laig ad ecome deel egossed t doest feel like a odagol odago le em  game ga me The acto acto s faste ad the evels ae ettethoght ette thoght mchfaste mch ot tha i ma of the othe acman vaiats weve come acoss The gahcs ae excetioall good as ae the sod effects ad a lot of laig that each ttle to make se thateach hass goe to the ttleto ha level s totall diffeet  desg to the evioss oe evio o e The actio is fast ad fos ad as thee s oase o ase acit o have to e o the all ththee whoe tme A lase i cocetato ca costo cost o valale ots ad a lfe Games 'of this ate ae geeall of mted aeal t Oil's Wel is a excellet iteetato of the acman theme ad is Pi all gaes ae ver ver few ad fa etwee etwee ad ae that's ecase the all ook the sae ad the otcoe s pedictale Bt has wacked have we got ews foo fo o PSS haswacked its as ad coe p with a piall gae called Macadam Bumper Ths is a piall gae with a few iteestig additios to it. Macadam Bumper is a fll piall sila to ad desig package Not ol ca o plaa  a eall ea gae of piall t whe whe o get fed fed p o ca coplete copl ete alte the desig ad aot ad pla a gae cofog to o ow pesoal pefe eces The actal piall gae itself st ad ad ite hih igh scoes ca e achieved with a ick flick of the wst ad soe att aoeveig with the flppe kes Iteestigl eogh we fod a Achl es heel B pessig pessig the CAPS OCK ke ad a ado seecto of othe kes the scoig sste goes copletel hawie ad it is possle to gve oself a eal eall hgh hg h scoe that eve the ost expeieced  gaeste wil fd had to eat. Afte a whi whille the gae does get ooto os ad this is whee the desig ode coes ito its ow B sig a vaet of fctios o ca ed p plaig a gae taloade to o ow specficatios o stat off with o �e peseted with a Gaes withot loadig istc istctos tos sal i te got its sigif that the copa has't ite act togethe ad that the gae ist goi go ig to e all that illiat t this st the thecase casewiwith Space Rescue. Fo a stat ot ol is Space Rescue cheap t it eies eies ol 1 6K which shold please owes of 32K Mitsshi MSX icos who feetl wte wte i ad copl co plai that ost gaes eie 64K ad that the feel had doe  to esce the tite sggests otask o task is toesce Asthe As fellow spacee who ae tapped o a la sface soewhee i the th e k  k depths of ote space he gae stats with a spectacla t he sface ofof the picte of the galax ad the plaet ad the pesets o with a spaceshp flig ack ad foth acoss the scee with o side it. ow eow ae ie space statios each woth etwee 50 add 150 a 1 50 pots. Iside each space statio s o  task s to ad o the a space a ad o statio ga the a ad head ack fo the statio othe shp Oce o've aaged to ca the go o to etieve all ie e o ca tackle the ext task o the ext level Bt as i all good gaes ostcles lie i o path Betwee o ad the space statos ae ee spaceships ot to desto o ad cosideale skll is e of fctios ad oce o've woked ot whee to have the ell s o flippes ad ad how fa apat al o have to do is pess the appopiate ke ad he pesto IfI f o ake ake a stake si pl choose the  ot fcto ad ease the offedig ite with the pedefied pedefi ed Y G  oB o B kes kes Nothig cold e sple. Ad ifi f o o dot like the colo sipl choose the appopiate fctio ke to epait the ackgod ate the colo of the ode o jst pat i oe of the flppes. Oce o ae copletel satisfied with oceato o fosavi ceato thee is also a faciit fo savig t to tape so that o ca pa it aga late withot all the egwok. PSS has eall pt a lot of iagiato i agiato to this title whch poal expais wh the've ot eleased a ttes fo MSX ove the past few oths. Piall gaes aet eveoes cp of tea as the sall  ted toto e e ch of a chess ch ess t PSS has eall exceled itsef with this ttle If oe a piall fa the Macadam Bumper is goig to e ight p o steet. Yo wot get ch chage fo ie podss t we kow of o othe titlel e fo the pod oe that allows o to pa a stadad gae the totall edesig the laot ad ceate o ow gae eied to avoid eg lasted  sa skil ecase the cotols ae't exactl fld ad the espose tie is had hpefast cso so cotol kes ae sed to ove ove Thec The o left ad ight ad whe sed o do't ove to the left o ight staght awa istead o ted to glde ad feet ito the ee Figig ot the the glidig tie is a aage ge to pace t oe kack ad tl o aa ot goig goi g to get ve fa d escedig it is ve eas eas to fal Alsowhe o whe descedi ito the path of the ee ad the est wa od this is to keep glidig to the left ad ight to dodge the Ascedg s aothe atte. 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Fredd Bg e! i i a ica lato gae and on eac lee tee are aio bit o ood tat ake  a bel brger. Yor tak i to tnde aond te leel loting e ood between betwe en te bn. bn . Once o ae coleed ono al o bell brge o can en oe ono te next ceen. Sond ea doent it? Wel it int. Wold o beliee o ae to wac wac o o ried egg and aage? B into one o ee and o oe a I ie and a o onl ae ree o a a  o o wit i a good id ea to be extra extra catio.  . Te on on  wa to dioe o e egg and aage i to gab a eer ot, ibeall doe te in ee eerr and o te in te bn aongide e ea and alad. 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Sa i far ro ro reckle wit e one on e ini n ac e downrgt rgal and ot and end to ini wit one or ote laer olding wie te take are low Trogot eac gae te and te ot and or reaining one are dilaed At e end o eac and a eqence  eqence o rae ow e ta of Sa aarel in oter wod wa e tll wearing od egrai e graic aren bad bt I eckon eckono be bette of of oking ot for a co o Th Su Sun n i or ntere i in oglng. Sero oker laer ig be better o wit a ac o igt ie o at o can grab i. e econd lee i c  c e ae a e ia  a o are aced wi te ae cenario and ae te ae nber o brger to colete b tee are an awl ot oe aage and ried egg nning arond and it ig diicl to coete. Haing aid tat we did anage o colete i and get on o eel tee neede to a we didnt la e long. ee aent an eole wo can boa ee been zaed b a aage! Once o anage to wo ot e ace oo e gae o can ten e aio aing ecniqe ecni qe c a dob dob ing backo oo e ried egg. Aernatie t arting a te te o becae, wen a iece o ood i ed down i e te food beow it onto te lee below tat and o on. Howeeone Howee one o e annoi ann oing eate o te gae i tat wen o loe a i e intead tead o contining raigt awa awa tegae te gaereert reert bac o e it ceen wi a e intrcion o laing. Anoer i ta een wen o anage o coee e bel bge wito loing a lie o ae no ewarded wi an exa one. Oter an ta Macattack i geat n to i na and la, ig aing and oall oigina wee re e coan wod ebe ei ale i te gae wa old wit a big ac. laing card Howee on ide i de two oo te caete i i a diferen to. Yo ae reented wit te inernaional ional een een cad cad rea bine  inerna td o ea oker laer. Yo can cooe cooe one wo or i oe eeing brae, tee oonent to a againt and ercil Sa i exclded ro ti gae. I ore new to te gae ere i a deo ode wc ii  efl to watc and and or cking    a ewe ew eeena i. So een i o know abolel noting abo oke o od oon ick  te baic of e gae and eenal becoe qie good at it. lt a en be wort or wile aing a gaee wtt Sa  w ga woo know, o cod wn A a a oker gae go Martec a deied a ret good gae. Yor oo  to nen are able to anale or a and to trn it to teir adantage wic ake te gae al te ore diiclt and nal. Occaonal Occa onal te tecan can be bed. Howe er te roga conrolling te iaion i extreel oiicaed and incorora i ncororate te a aiicial intel igence it going ig leel o aiicial o ake a beter laer an e  e o wiwin . At £.9 i a litle rice and a it coatibilii  i oewa iied it obab won be a i. is a coverted versio o e game o te same ame ta as ee widely acclamed o oer popular ome micros Te press release ta came wi e game aouces at Bondr s ack  we dd eve kow  ad goe away. Ayway toget to get ack to te game. Bondr rerevo voves aroud a ouci ouc ig al  all ad is very very reiiscet o e peo peomeal meall y successul successul Bodrda Wi Bondr you ave to  ouce oo exagoa slas. Miss e   . , slas ad youre a goer Tere are varous sos o alies ou o ese iclude iocu io cuoids, desroy you ad ese sickits oscita rds comper domes perries ad cois. However te good ews s s a ere are a riedly aies suc as e teeports ad ewriedl ew te ous ugs. Despie e very colourul cass cassete ete cover cover te game is vey plai. Te irst level is a o wi payedo yed o ao wie ad lack ackgroud ad atat irs I oud  visual vi sual y ve cousig ad aied to get aywere. But perseverace paid o ad oce troug e rst evel you ave o ouce yourwa your wayy aroud a ous ou s eve wic umps up your score score uite cosideral cosi deraly. Gettig o evel two is a welcome reak ot jus ecause e sceery s dieret u it is also a diere ere coour, a dirty yellow Bondr SUPPliER: n o te groud A murder as eecoi ee coied ote loor o a coutry asio caed Tudor Close. s e. Te ody is a oo Doctor Black te oweroo e ouse. ower comied e urder waweapo Wocomi Wo did e or se use ad were was e gruesoe crie carried ou Solvig e es release myseiis e aeoVir gis s laesrel myse or MS a compuer verso o te amous Cdo oard gae Fas o e game wi kow at i is a gae oo vesgaao  deecio skil  ad a d e vil aii  y a lo o luck. c k. Te ojec is o o de processoo eliao. . process Te gae sas w e payers eig gve a i ied ed umer o cues ad e irs oe o d ou wo did te dirty deed wa w ad were wis ad ca go ito usess as a prvae eye You ca eier pay agais te computer wc w  assuee assue e roles o te oer ive occupas o te ouse or you ad a uddy ca pi your wits agais te compuer ad eac oter. copuer versio cuts out e Playige g e copuerversi eed o pyscaly row e dice, move te couters ad te iplemes u you stil eede eed o ake your oes ady e otepad ote pad oake ad y o eli ae e oce paries om your eues. Agai you ave to ouce your wa wayy aroudd e scree arou scree avoidig te asies ad scorig as may poits as possile. To e oest we I rst payed te game it didt appeal, u I m glad I gave gave iaoter i aoter go.. Oce go O ce youve worked out wat o do ad were te es positio s are its reay good u.. I ac u actt it as te same addictive addictive uaies as Bodrda ad wit te rig markeig i coud ur out to e jus as popuar ad ecome a classc ss c. Oce you ecome airly adep you ca sa to sow o (as I did) ad take loger umps so tat you ave time to give your cus a aeroaics aeroaics dispay As or playig eciues you wil u doutedy id e pause ucio vey gam e so tat you ca useu or reezig te game draw a map ad mark te dager da ger zoes. lt is also wo igorig te structos ta ru acros acrosss te scree as e program mertritries to kid you ta you ave got a ca mer ca  els cace o wii wiig g ul u less you you use a joysick. Speakg rom experiece ats asolute osese ad es avig you o. Te keyoard gives you more actle cotrol wic meas you lad o more slas ad ge more pois ad wa do poits ake? At £895 i is a lite pricey or a cassee asedd game u u ase u  to play deecive otes wit te game ut avid payers wl  soo ge troug em so uless e copay is goig to suppy rels youd eerer ave a ruer ady. e a dy. Like tose o oter Virgi releases te grapcs i Cdo are super very cear rgt ad detaled. A exac repica o e oard appears eac im e a player trows e dce ad we it comes o makig a accusaiio e guil accusa gui lty party party murder m urder weapo ad e room appears o te scree. I e i correc rec te game co co ues. accusao is icor Te soud eects are ootoous ad do ittle to eace e game. Apar rom tese mior uies it s a very good simulatio o e rea ig. Board games do ave soud eecs, ater a ad you aways ur te volume dow.  caTere aret may m ay oard games tat ave ee successuly raslated  to computer computer versios But Vrgi is o to a deiite wier as te titles i cooses are cassic games appeall o all ages ad wil ever e e ou ta appea o aso aso.. A£9.95 A te cassete cassete s proaly ceaper £9.95te a e acual oard game ad is jus as muc u toto play. lyoureo lyoureoe e lookou lookoutt ora game to keep yourse occupied durig te summer mos, Cdo sould e a te op o e list. · other eff efficient icient me  me saving sav ing programs to choose from nd theyre all so easy to use o call up informaon on the monitor mon itor you can just use a joysck and an d forget the keyboard What can be easier than that? that? Computer Maes Lmited, Ple Pl e snd me fth dct b.  Paly, ondon  P B  ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• dd •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Comte vesions of taditional oad games seem to e in voge at the moment and Vigin Games has wasted no tme in nging ot Scrabbe on cassette Man of m ees wee oght  on Mamite and Snakes and an d Ladders Ladders t I was dagged  on Scrabbe Not onl did it imove m selling t also inceased inceased m vocala and so  was leasantl s ised to fnd that Vigin' Vi gin's offeing is st like the oignal game lt is licensed fom  W Seaand Sea and Sons who intodced the oignal oad game man moons ago The game gam e gves o two two laig otions aganst the comte o against  to thee othe eole On loading o ae esented with these otions and once ove made o choice the ogam ovides an onsceen oad and all the sal faclities o get with the oad game All the wods have een selected fom habers 20h enu Dicina and habers Wrds which s the efeence sed in offcial Scale tonaments The ogams vocala s n excess of 111 1 000 wods wo ds  moe than adeate adeate The ogam ates as a technical tode foce with some s ome ve nift data comess ion technies sed to cam a esecta lage vocaa into a elatvel small mst e one of the alltime classic games and thee cant e e a homethat home that oadgames oad asnt got aset a set o at the ve least oowed else's someoneelse's someone t is a fn game to la t alwas a dag when the game s ove and all the ieces have to e t ack into the ox Bt now thanks to Vigin o don't have to do that as the coman coman has lanched its longawaited comte vesion caled puer Mnpy When the game fist aved in MSX Comting's offce the fstthi st thin g we noticed s that the game is availale in ethe 48K o which s geat news foownes 64KK vesions whichs 64 foownes of the Yamaha Mitsshi MLF80 and Pionee mcos Btt what aot the game? Well if o've B alead ead  laed Monool o ae moethan moe than familia with the aiaimm of the game and the les l es o those who have neve laed can thee ossl e anone who hasnt? the aamm s to  as mc mchh oe as ossl ossle oo mke lots of mone and foce o oo anktcthe the one ents nto ove o anktc wth the most oe oett and mone wns hee les ae identcal to the oiginal h that theoad vesio The onl dffeence is thatthe oad s on the sceen and o can't hsicall hnde the eces ll instctions ae incded lettng o know whch kes to Mnpy memo caacit The aveage wod is oal eithe five o sx chaactes so conventonal convento nal ogammi ogamm ing wold eat  the whole 64K st fo the vocala leaving nothing fo the game code! As fo laing the game itselff t s almost ost dentical to the oad game I sa almost ecase the taditiona game doesn't give give o the otion of laing at diffeent skil levels fo ovios easons neithe does it offe o the otion of sond effects effects aga fo ovios easons! A ni niee feate feate that that s ilt into the game is the colo otion f o have onl got a ack and white monito the ogam sstittes secial smos fo the the emi em im sae colos so that o can stil see whats whee No othe game to m knowledge offe offess sch a feate Thee s also an otion that allows o to see the comte thnking' as it ties to ceate wods and oost its on on scoe And if o findosel d oselfstck stckthe comte comtewiwi I lend a hand  givng o a hint of one aale Gahcs ae ight attactve and a seio to those of man games ga mes evewed in the ast isses of MSX puing. The sond isal is also ve ealistic when o shffle the tiles in the ack tng to fom a wod word wo rd.. ess fo ng/selling/motgaging and thowng the dce And fo f ocan' can't fnd anone to la against o can t o wits against the comte comte t e waned waned  t las las a mean game The gahics ae seve ight and t he ieces on the oad oad can e clea and all the dstingished easil The laes' o eties and mone ae diaed in the ottom haf of the sceen so that at all times o know exactl what o own and how mch mone o o have A fhe advantage o disadvantage deending on how o like to la s the loss of one old stand of the oonist lae  oing the ank while noone is looking OK so it's against the les and highl OK tt oe seclatos aent immoal  exactl noted fo thei hilantho n an case! The onl falt we cold fnd with ththee game to get sed to lang the is that ittakes it takes time toget game on the comte and if moe moethan than two · of o e laing t gets a little cowded Othethan Othe than that thees nothing to comlain aot These das o will e had essed to find a good oad game that wll gve o changefom change fom 15 1 5 so 5 fo fo a classc game sn't too high a ce to a Most wod ocesso ocessoss sffe fom oe majo ito edt mode o ae told that thee ae fee fo fo text Ths is a olem  the se the stadad MSX eal 1 ,000 tes fee scees fo text edtg Thats fie so so log astoishig me fo a 6k home mico mico as o ol eve wite shoig lists o ae ad is eogh fo f o eve eve ite a lo g chate eaigtextfoseo eaigtextfo seo ook sies Bt fo fo of a ook most sesile alcatios o eed to e  The othe mai feate is fiedless ess  ale to se cosideal oe tha 32 Ma of the scees ae emiscet of chaactes e liee  games This wod ocesso st gog to Ths softwa gets aod that olem fighte aoe ad that might m ight make it adma adm a  si g a edefied chaacte aic lal l  sta stalle fo og eole mak set The Taswo Taswodd ogam ogam did ths too t g the fist fist foa foas s ito ths aea Bt thats ot as legil ad ot ot o cat catdge dge  the ot to de the seios alicatios of the most coveiet softwa softwaee fomat kow to soft softwae wae ltl t has eogh seos feates to makd make it a stog cotede  the small Mlttext allows o to edt  32 o  sess stakes col m modes Scee esetatio is ve That said thee ae a few gm gmlles The clea aticlal the ifomative stats softwae has a demo mode! Sel the sace cold have ee t to ette secto at the to of the scee scee  memosace memo  Like ma of ofessoal essoal wod ocessos ocessos se lke a ote to detect if a ite s Mlttext makes extesive se of cotol coected. If o t itg a fle wthot a kes althogh  this case o se the ESC ite lgged  the sof softwa twaee sml hags ke athe athe tha CTL. Pessg Pessg ESC alog   stoage  whee the with aothe a othe ke efoms oeati oeatios sch The same alies to stoage as ight jstif age legth settig ad lock machie wll wat foeve fo a cassette oeatios oeatio s as well as as a host host ofof othe othe machie o disk dve that st thee fctiios If o foget what a articla ke fct ke Howeve its ce to see a ogam which s fo essig ESCH E SCH gives a oscee oscee takes accot accot of Qickdisks as wel we l as the list moe covetioal stoag stoagee media Bt The ogam ovosl ses some cleve gies aside ts a ce iece of kit ad well ogammig tcks Whe o fist switch worth the moe. While ot exactl Alligatas Geatest Hits this s a iteestig comilatio of fo te vaied games What o get i echage fo o hadead te is Bagger Dsc Warror Warror 3D 3D Knock Knockou ou ad Superbow. Most games have a ve ve sho selli g lifee  So oe wa of makg moe moe ot of them s to ack ackage age the titles i comilatios like ths or ortate tatell ts also good ews fo fo the cstome cstome assmig a ssmig that o havetgot moe tha oe of the ttles alead if o have what ae o doig eadig this ?  evew   Bagger s the classc latfom game  classic i the sese that its ee doe lots of scoee times dgig  the me of high sco claims we get its aso oe of the most oa The est game o the tae howeve s Dsc Warqr The 3 gahics dot d ot exactl foce fo ce ack the foties of comte desig desi g t the ae imagiative ad cleve  eogh to make the game cetail good 0  egagg veegagg ve lts oe of those games whee oe i costat cos tat tol tole a lttle like edtg a home comte magaze. lts all good acto acked stff If ove stil got some eeg afte that fli ove the tae ad load i 3D Knockou. lt doestt take a ALevel i Bai does Ba i amage to wokk ot that this is a oxig siml wo sim lato ltl t looks easoal good too with a wide age of ches lt goggiess facto facto ad stamia level Bt as someoe wth a almost athological aveso to dageos statios  efeed to ass o to the ext game ased de Superbow was ogiall eleased the Bdge Bdg e Softwa Softwaee lael c ced ed at 2.99 Plic ad ess eacto was almost comlete diffeece diffeece As wth the oigal o igal the stctios sed moe time tellg o aot the les of Ameca ootall tha aot how to la the comte game Ad thee ae some stage feates lke the wa it atomaticall goes ito demo mode if ke fo a while. 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On thefi the first screen, o are worng on the roroads. ads. Picing Pici ng the  the rsh (dots) is eas as ong as o o can avoid the e car which chases o f o manage mana ge to cear the streets streets o o go on to the next fc t as the  e car now ts  road ocs eve Ths is more diffc at random. The second scenario ts o at wor in a sace station The matrx of corridors s garded  two saceshis from a riva coman. If either of them sots sots o o wi e thrown thrown ot of the o finish fini sh ths screen o wi find fi nd orsef station stat ion mmediate mmediate  f o shi s move faster faster One hint for this on the next eve where the shis screen  o have a etter chance of srviva at the extreme edges of the grid Program Struture 10 40 R 10 RMars 80 1 00 e efn fnee var varia iaes es (Game Ot Oton on 1  120 1 40 Ma Mainin oooos 1 60 60 1 70 Ne Neww eeve ve 1 90 26 2600 Mo Move ve Tr Trash ashma mann 2800 31 0 Mo 28 Move vethe the car 330 340 Set directions for car to go 360 380 efine variaes es (Game (Gam e Otion 2) 4000 44 40 4400 Mai Main oos 460 4 70 70 New eve 490 500 Move saceshis 520 580 Trashman gets caght  saceshis 6000 650 Set  afied 60 670 70 7000 Printnt ot oterer o ocs cs 720 76 720 7600 Prntnt inner oc ocs s 780 850 Printnt dot 780 dotss 8701 030 efine Srites, characters and variaes 10501110 Trashman gets hit hi t  car 11301240 Int Game otons 12601430 Hiscore tae L S  XY A° V K  M  JK N° G Man Variabl Variables es ives Score eve XY Coordinates of Trashman XY Coordinates of the car Variae se s e for veeng efnes the contro (Jostic or Keoard) Srite Pattern of Trash man ecides when to change the directi di rections of the car Srite Patte Patternrn of the car ca r sedtoto set the did irection for the car to go sed Nmer of dots eft Game otion C0lo Z Q  H l 0o(9 ) H$(9) H, J M$,M1$ R,H, W0lo The Positions of saceshis Ste of shis The seed of saceshis moving Hscores Hiscore names Horzonta and an d vertica directions of the car Stic (x. J STCK) ntrodctor Msic Nmerer of ostaces the car s goin g to set Nm Variaes sed in Hiscore ta tae Sprite Patterns 1 The Rond Shae of Trashman 2 - Trashm Trashman an going right 3 Trashman going eft 4 Trashman going  Trashman going down 5  6 - Car going vetca 7 Car going horizonta Saceshi going horizonta 8 9 Saceshi going vertica vertica Charater Patterns ots 1 52 Boc (green) 1 68 1 76 mt acgro acgrond nd (red) *Characters *Charact ers nmer 168 1 68 and  76 are are not defined, t the coors of character c haracterss are changed. 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8800 SC 88 0 GOTTO 300 800 GO 8 8 000 GOSU BF66 0 TO 0 STEP  6 0 FO 0  F   0 FO 200 SOUUNNDD  , I NT  F /  6  2 9 3 0 SO 00 NEXT C F  0  500 SCS T E 2 2 , 0 P NT SC 5 600 OCA 6  0 TT D  00  0 THEN   0 800  F SCMO 8 NTT EVAL ON 00 N  000 � .· whch ur  ur riter det rerecge. cge. f the aicular character i imat the wel tel t ell yu what t huld be i the th e itrduct t the rgram rgram Whe a rgram crahe yu wil fte get a errr meage which refer refer t a artcular lie umber But thi it alway ay a ueful a it ud becaue it may rexaml t be that e whch ctai the fault r examle b ut the rram the le  e may ctai ctai a REA cmmad but wl crah cr ah becaue f a lack f AA AA fr th li e t AAtatemet REA he fault actually lie i the AA REA tatemet r th rea yu mut take arti ar ticular care ver AAA etrie Sme rgram ca cta a cue f A hudred hudr ed umber  umber ad trig  AA AA lie Mi ut ut e tem r e cmma ad the t he rgram wil fal thrugh AA tarvat  Make ure yu are eterig eteri g exacty what what  hw  the ltig  tig t tye tye a zer zer whe it hud be the letter  r a mall I whe it huld be the umber e REMM tatemet ca uualy be mtted which ave RE tme ad eff effrtrt But they d hel he l t exa what i gig  hat hady whe yu cme back ta t a rgram after a break ad wat t make me chage chage  Ad      watch ut fr GOO f e f thee cmmad drect drect the ththee rgram tt a REM R EM le which yuve mttedthe mtted Mt f the (frtuately few) cmlait we get abut rgram wil crh rgramwil liti g ca be traced t icrrect tyg f the rgram rgr am If  the ed e d yu till 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