ACU Issue 05 (Apr 1985): Difference between revisions

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The fifth issue of Amstrad Computer User, published by Amsoft.

Page Number	Title	Description
Page 5	News	A full report on the recent L.E.T. trade show
Page 10	Letters	Your input to our output
Page 17	Book Reviews	Best buys from the bookshop
Page 20	Screen Squashing	More than 20 columns in Mode 0. Impossible? No, read on
Page 26	Printer Reviews	Sort out which type suits you
Page 29	The Joy of Sticks	Sally Tyler looks at joysticks
Page 34	Software Reviews	Which should you buy, we offer our PROGnosis
Page 43	Competition: The Ins and Outs of the Amstrad	Thirty Copies of the new Melbourne House book to be won
Page 46	Intro to Music	Tune up your computer and get ready to play
Page 50	Missile Attack	Type this in and save the world
Page 59	The Monster's Final Hour	Tried and tested adventure program
Page 68	Forth	Part II of our tutorial in this fun language
Page 76	Machine Code Programming	P.K. McBride takes a beginners look at machine code
Page 84	Writing Adventures	Build a world of your very own

Games reviewed

Type ins

All of the following programmes can be found on this Disk Image (with thanks to Ervin)

Disc Merge

File(s) associated with this article:
- DSCMERGE.BAS
See page 82 (below) for more details.

Machine Code Action

Other file(s) associated with this article:
- MCDEMO.ASM
- SPRITE1.BAS
See page 73 (below)for more details.

RUN"MCDEMO1"
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RUN"MCDEMO2"
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Missile Attack

RUN"MISSILE"
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The Monster's Final Hour

RUN"MONSTERS"
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The Musical Amstrad (Part 2)

RUN"MUSIC1"
RUN"MUSIC2"
RUN"MUSIC3"

Screen Squashing

Other file(s) associated with this article:
- SCRLIST2.BAS
- SCRLIST3.BAS
- SCRCODE1.BIN
- SCRCODE2.BIN
See page 20 (below) for more details.

RUN"SCRLIST4"
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Writing Adventures (Part 1)

RUN"ADVENT1"
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Scans

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 [[Category:Magazines]]
-Issue 4, 1985 of [[Amstrad Computer User]]
+The fifth issue of [[Amstrad Computer User]], published by [[Amsoft]].
 == Contents ==
+{|{{Prettytable|width: 700px; font-size: 2em;}}
+|Page Number || Title || Description
+|-
+|Page 5 || News || A full report on the recent L.E.T. trade show
+|-
+|Page 10 || Letters || Your input to our output
+|-
+|Page 17 || Book Reviews || Best buys from the bookshop
+|-
+|Page 20 || Screen Squashing || More than 20 columns in [[Mode 0]].  Impossible? No, read on
+|-
+|Page 26 || Printer Reviews || Sort out which type suits you
+|-
+|Page 29 || The Joy of Sticks || Sally Tyler looks at joysticks
+|-
+|Page 34 || Software Reviews || Which should you buy, we offer our PROGnosis
+|-
+|Page 43 || Competition: The Ins and Outs of the Amstrad || Thirty Copies of the new [[Melbourne House]] book to be won
+|-
+|Page 46 || Intro to Music || Tune up your computer and get ready to play
+|-
+|Page 50 || [[Missile Attack]] || Type this in and save the world
+|-
+|Page 59 || [[Monster's Final Hour|The Monster's Final Hour]] || Tried and tested adventure program
+|-
+|Page 68 || Forth || Part II of our tutorial in this fun language
+|-
+|Page 76 || Machine Code Programming || P.K. McBride takes a beginners look at machine code
+|-
+|Page 84 || Writing Adventures || Build a world of your very own
+|-
+|}
 == Games reviewed ==
-[[Sorcery]], [[Muntant Monty]], [[Cubit]], [[Splat]], [[Laserwarp]], [[Star Commando]], [[Xanagrams]], [[Codename MAT]], [[Sultan's Maze]], [[Crazy Golf]], [[Blagger]]
+===[[Blagger]]===
+===[[Codename MAT]]===
+===[[Crazy Golf]]===
+===[[Cubit]]===
+===[[Laserwarp]]===
+===[[Mutant Monty]]===
+===[[Sorcery]]===
+===[[Splat!]]===
+===[[Star Commando]]===
+===[[Sultan's Maze]]===
+===[[Xanagrams]]===
 == Type ins ==
+All of the following programmes can be found on this [[media:acu8504.zip‎|Disk Image]] (with thanks to Ervin)
+===Disc Merge===
+File(s) associated with this article:<br/>
+- DSCMERGE.BAS<br/>
+See page 82 (below) for more details.
+===Machine Code Action===
+Other file(s) associated with this article:<br/>
+- MCDEMO.ASM<br/>
+- SPRITE1.BAS<br/>
+See page 73 (below)for more details.<br/><br/>
+RUN"MCDEMO1"<br/>
+[[image:acu8504mcdemo1.png|384px]]<br/><br/>
+RUN"MCDEMO2"<br/>
+[[image:acu8504mcdemo2.png|384px]]
+===[[Missile Attack]]===
+RUN"MISSILE"<br/>
+[[image:acu8504missile1.png|384px]]
+[[image:acu8504missile2.png|384px]]<br/><br/>
+[[image:acu8504missile3.png|384px]]
+[[image:acu8504missile4.png|384px]]
+===[[Monster's Final Hour|The Monster's Final Hour]]===
+RUN"MONSTERS"<br/>
+[[image:acu8504monsters1.png|384px]]
+[[image:acu8504monsters2.png|384px]]<br/><br/>
+[[image:acu8504monsters3.png|384px]]
+[[image:acu8504monsters4.png|384px]]
+===The Musical Amstrad (Part 2)===
+RUN"MUSIC1"<br/>
+RUN"MUSIC2"<br/>
+RUN"MUSIC3"
-[[ACU April 1985 - Type-ins]]
+===Screen Squashing===
+Other file(s) associated with this article:<br/>
+- SCRLIST2.BAS<br/>
+- SCRLIST3.BAS<br/>
+- SCRCODE1.BIN<br/>
+- SCRCODE2.BIN<br/>
+See page 20 (below) for more details.<br/><br/>
+RUN"SCRLIST4"<br/>
+[[image:acu8504screensquash1.png|384px]]
-== Online Pages ==
+===Writing Adventures (Part 1)===
+RUN"ADVENT1"<br/>
+[[image:acu8504advent1.png|384px]]
+[[image:acu8504advent2.png|384px]]
-<gallery caption="Amstrad Computer User, Issue 4, 1985">
+== Scans ==
+<gallery caption="Amstrad Computer User, Issue 05, April 1985">
 Image:ACU0485-001.jpg|Frontpage
 Image:ACU0485-002.jpg|Page 2

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