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

Contents

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

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 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"
Acu8504mcdemo1.png

RUN"MCDEMO2"
Acu8504mcdemo2.png

Missile Attack

RUN"MISSILE"
Acu8504missile1.png Acu8504missile2.png

Acu8504missile3.png Acu8504missile4.png

The Monster's Final Hour

RUN"MONSTERS"
Acu8504monsters1.png Acu8504monsters2.png

Acu8504monsters3.png Acu8504monsters4.png

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"
Acu8504screensquash1.png

Writing Adventures (Part 1)

RUN"ADVENT1"
Acu8504advent1.png Acu8504advent2.png

Scans