AA Type Ins

AA 001 - October 1985

No listings published in this issue

AA 002 - November 1985

No listings published in this issue

AA 003 - December 1985

Disk Image - instructions and screenshots are also included
Screenshots:

001 - Zebra Windmills

002 - Lissajoux Figures

003 - Dionysian Spiral

AA 004 - Christmas 1985

User Defined Graphics (David Muir)

Disk Image - instructions and screenshots are also included
Screenshots:

004 - User Defined Graphics

AA 005 - February 1986

Music Composer (Simon Selway)

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Screenshots

Music Composer

AA 006 - March 1986

Amstrad Drumkit (John Keneally)
Psychedelic Plot (John Keneally)
Disk Menu (Mike Singleton)
Graphic Patterns (Martin Scarland)

A modification to Amstrad Drumkit was published in the June 1986 issue (#9). The modified version would later appear on the covertape included with the Christmas 1986 issue (#16), and again on the covertape included with the November 1991 issue (#74).

John Keneally also programmed the game Dervish, which was published by The Power House in 1988.

Graphic Patterns is a slightly modified version of a listing that was published in the CPC464 User Instructions. This was confirmed by a reader who wrote a letter to Amstrad Action, which was published in the May 1986 issue (#8).

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Screenshots

Amstrad Drumkit
Psychedelic Plot
Disk Menu
Graphic Patterns

AA 007 - April 1986

Codebreaker (Paul Taylor) - a modification was also provided for users of green screen monitors

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Screenshots

Codebreaker
Codebreaker, modified for use on green screen monitors

AA 008 - May 1986

Conveyor Belt (Roger Wilson)
Swirl (Paul Fairhurst)
Rotating Sphere (James Cadwallader)

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Screenshots

Conveyor Belt
Swirl
Rotating Sphere

AA 009 - June 1986

Drumkit Revisited (Peter Newman) - a modification to Amstrad Drumkit that allows each sound channel to be reset
Unerase (Alexander Clark) - separate versions are provided for system/vendor format discs and data format discs
Etch-a-Sketch (Dick Ruck)
Typing Tutor (Dick Ruck)
Trix (Philip Gardner)
Key-RSX (Philip Pepperell)

A correction to Unerase was published in the August 1986 issue (#11), which fixed a problem where the wrong line number was displayed if the user typed in the DATA statements incorrectly. However, the program still works without the correction if it is typed in without any mistakes.

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Screenshots

Drumkit Revisited
Unerase
Etch-a-Sketch
Typing Tutor
Trix
Key-RSX

AA 010 - July 1986

Speed 3K (Chris Rollo)
CAT#8 (Justin Macklin)
Blitter (Paul Bond)

Two versions of CAT#8 were supposed to be published in this issue - one version for CPC464 machines, and a shorter version for CPC664 and CPC6128 machines, which used the COPYCHR$ command. However, Amstrad Action forgot to print the 464 version. It was published in the August 1986 issue (#11).

Blitter would later appear on the covertape included with the Christmas 1986 issue (#16).