YourCommodore02-Nov84.pdf

An Argus Specialist Publication

NCWEMBER 1984

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IMPROVE YOUR PROGRAMMING

BASIC, MACHINE CODE, VIC GAMES AND

VENTURE INSIDE FOR WI TH THE SX-64:

SOME ADVENTUROUS HARDWARE REVIEW

SOFTWARE INSIDE

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Your views

Your trusty Editor has

will be starting their build-

up to Christmas with the

launch of undoubtedly

numerous games and

utilities for the Commodore

range of machines.

The editorial team on

your Commodore has been

under intensive training to

enable their ﬁnely tuned

(?!) bodies and minds to

keep up to date with all the

latest happenings on the

Commodore front, so all

you need to do to ensure

that you are kept informed

is to make sure that you get

your copies of Your

Commodore regularly.

There is an easy way to do

this — just look for the

Subscriptions page in this

magazine, ﬁ ll in the

coupon, write your cheque

and sit back and wait for

your copies to come

popping through your

letterbbx. It sure beats

ﬁghting your way to the

shelves in your local

newsagents!

again tapped away at

the typewriter to

introduce this second

fantastic issue of Your

It is always difﬁcult when

starting up a new magazine

to gauge the response of the

most important people

involved — you, the

readers. So here is your

chance to get in on the act!

By now we hope that you

will have read the ﬁrst issue

of Your Commodore. The

ﬁrst question to be asked is:

did you enjoy what you

read? Then, was it

useful/informative/fun?

Did it tell you all you wanted

to know?

We consider ourselves

fairly approachable here in

the depths of the Your

Commodore ofﬁces so why

don't you use the lines of

communication that we are

trying to open up? Tell us

what you would like to see

in the future — would you

like more games to type in,

more programming fea-

tures, less reviews, etc, etc.

Those good or lines of

communication can also be

used for getting into contact

with other Commodre

users; do you want to join a

local Commodore users'

group? Are you having

trouble ﬁnding your way

out of a particularly

frustrating Adventure

scenario? Having trouble

ﬁnding just the right

program to suit your

speciﬁc needs?

All you have to do is

write to the Editor at the

London ofﬁce and we'll do

our best to help — either

directly or by printing your

letter within these hallowed

pages.

ASP ﬁ ghts software

piracy

have taken a positive stand

against it. ASP is among

those few that have taken

action to help curb the

grave problem of home

copying of commercial

software.

ASP has already taken

steps to eliminate adver-

tisements in our magazines

which relate to tape

duplication for piracy

purposes. While it is

appreciated that individuals

may take 'back-up' copies

of their own programs, it

should be noted that it is

ILLEGAL to copy com-

mercially available software

for other than personal use.

Software piracy is

costing the software

industry huge sums of

money which is detrimental

to the future development

of the industry. It is in

everybody's interests to

dramatically reduce the

level of software piracy

primarily because ﬁ rms

need funds raised from

software sales to plough

back intro research and

development of new

products. This means that

the standard of software

products can only improve.

ASP hopes our action

will help combat this serious

problem in order to

maintain and improve the

high standards of the UK

software industry. We are

asking you to do the same

by refraining from dupli-

cating or copying commer-

cially available software for

anything other than

personal use.

Commodore.

YOU KNOW IT ONLY

seems a couple of months

ago that we were sunning

ourselves on the beach

dreaming up the idea of a

great magazine to cater for

the needs of the Com-

modore user. And yet here

we are in October looking

forward to cosy roaring ﬁres

and sitting in front of our

micros with the wind

howling around outside the

window! But there are all

sorts of goodies on the

Commodore scene to look

forward to in the next

couple of months.

What the future holds

Keeping in the present

At this very time Com-

modore are launching their

new computers, the Plus 4

and the 16, Currah are

announcing their speech

synthesiser, Cheetah will be

producing the Com-

modore version of their

infra-red joystick (the RAT!)

and the software companies

This issue of Your Com-

modore we believe

maintains the high stand-

ards set in the ﬁrst issue: we

have a review of the MIDI

by Chris Palmer, who apart

from being a bit of a whizz

on computers is something

of a talented musician;

Runecaster has been

brought up from the Crypt

to tell us of Adventures and

other things; we have pages

packed with news and

software reviews; and we

have carried on our great

series on machine code and

BASIC. And, as if that isn't

enough, we also have some

fun games for you to type in

and hints on how to become written in condemnation of

a 'sneaky programmerl software piracy but few

Much has been said and

FORMULA ONE

OUR COMMENT

CS/1110DM

Our esteemed Editor has spouted forth

again.

Drive yourself completely round the bend

with this car game.

REFERENCE

LIBRARY

MASTERING MACHINE

CODE

There are lots of books around for the

Commodore range — we've leafed

through SOMP to give you some ideas.

We continue our great series on teaching

the basics of machine code.

VIC GAMES

PROGRAMMING 17

THE BASIC FACTS

PT.2

Find out more about how to program

games on your VIC 20.

Getting down to basics is the theme of this

informative series.

TALES FROM THE

CRYPT

SIGNET

VOLUME 1

NUMBER 2

NOVEMBER 1984

Editor: Wendy I Palmer

Editorial Assistant: Alison Hjul

Advertisement Manager: Mike

Segrue

Advertisement Copy Control:

Sue Couchman

Chairman: Jim Connell

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Kent.

Runecaster never gets a rest from the

Adventures of life!

A mine of fun awaits you in this

tremendous adventure for the CBM64.

MIDI REVIEW

SNEAKY

PROGRAMMING 56

We take a look at this great musical

interface and give our opinion — so be

ready to take notes!

Be sneaky and fool your Commodore with

some clever stuff — we show you how.

SOFTWARE

SPOTLIGHT

DATA STATEMENTS 58

We've thrown the spotlight on some of the

latest software packages — see what our

reviewers think about them.

All sorts of news to interest you as a

Commodore micro owner.

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SAMMY THE SLUG 64

DOING IT YOURSELF 80

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A further part of the series that helps you

write your own business software.

Slugs are not normally considered very

friendly but you can certainly have some

fun with Sammy.

BUSINESS FILE 82

RASTER

INTERRUPTS

ith

We take a look at some of the more serious

software around.

We show you what you can do with

graphics on your Commodore 64.

ASP Competition 84

INPUT/OUTPUT 74

Our great competition as advertised in the

national press fantastic prizes to be won.

SX-64 Reviewed 86

More of your technical enquiries

answered.

BEHIND CLOSED

DOORS

As an upgrade from the CBM64 the SX-64 is

a very nice machine.

We go behind the doors of PSS to bring you

news of their beginnings and latest doings.

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