P701 CJJFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:05/29 1/19 22 THE PAGE FOR Reviews......702 MICRO USERS Diary........703 Edited bz Martin Cooper Telesoftware.710 Contact us: P5JSTJL - 229999677 TJLECOZ GOLD - 72:MAG1049v POST - "NEXT", Room 7059, BBC TV Cjntri, London W22 7RJP701 CEJFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:05/59 2/19 THIS WEEK OUTVIDER Back from holiday, taker a look at the gayer side of Prestiln.. PAPE ROUND Keith Hazelton thumbs through the new weekly "Bang". , NEWS * 3]E computer graphics * Computer dealer jailed BBC BLUES Where has all the software gone? , WR NKLES How to *LOAD locked BBC cassette filesn REVIEWS ON 702 ] P701 CEEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:06/28 "OUTSIDER" What could banish the post-holiday blues better than to discover that Ptestel has got an Agony Aunt! $ It's more tasteful than titivating, dealing solemnly on 828843 (at 5p a throw) with problems ranging from consummation to car sickness. It also has the IP's n!me - Jester - unfortunately juxtaposed right over the words Problem Page. But where else on Pre;tel can you learn such reassuring statistics as "death during sexual activity accounts for only 0.6% of all sudden deaths". Phew! - INWARDSP701 CJEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:07/04 ,l 4/19 JJ "OUTSIDER" Inspired in mz quest for more fascinbting Prestel advicu, I mads , mz way to its Advice index on 16. Our worthy Agony Aunt doesn't get a mention hike, but I found a handy Keep Fit & Beauty index on 1260. Alas, it's somewhat short on beauty, but I found a suitably frightuning Heart Attack Que} 4884251. To mz surprise, it was indexed jrom a pbge hjadjd "Learning Can Be Fun", 288424, whose "light-hjarted exercises" include a quiz on - the Chjrnobzl nuclear disaster. )( ) FU5THER INP701 CJJFA( 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:07/30 5/19 ]]J]] "OU-SEDER" More useful advice from 16 includud $ JoTs on 187 - which cjttainly kept @ mj busy down a few blind alleys. Route 13 led to Faithfold Travel, whose "weekly job guide", sren on October 14, was dated September 24. Mettotel Viewdata Systems' ad jot an "enthusiastic sale;pjtson", route 16, had the closing date 16 July. Rats" Missed mz chancen Route 15, to the oddly-named Man Around, led to a completely blank page, 546nm663, confirming my worst fears - there AKIN'T a lot of min around. $ INWARDSP701 CEEFA( 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:08/07 6/19 "OUTSIDER" Seen readers will spot something a little "a la Channel 4" on mz page while on the subject of Man Around. It's a fairly lively database for homosexuals - one game even offers an "instant £25 prize" (do the coins roll out of your terminal?) But I was startled bz an ad wanting "private land for video team to shoot mud-wresting sequence". And 54v776903 is a jERZ seamy page which I don't think BT should carry. W- I dongs advjsj a look - but ism't it amazing what they can do with chocolate nowadays! % OU-P701 CJJFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:08/38 7/19 U PAPE RWUND I Keith Hazjlton This month we take a look at the new weekly paper Bang and introduce the Federation of Small Computer T Magbzjnjs. Bang exploded onto thb news-1tands last month. It is certainly different jrom any other compztur publication. It is a large size colour tabloid, with a cover price of 40p. For this you get 48 pages, which reprrsjnts good value for money. , It features not only computer news, "ut also items on videos, sport, records, TV and films. MoreP701 CJEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:09/11 8/19 PAPE" ROUND JJJ Keith Hazjlton Bang certainly lives up to its claim of being bright, Rra;h Qnd original. It is cleazly aimed at , tie teenage market. T @ With its large headlines and ample picture content, I jwund iu $ difficult to distinguish the editorial jrom the advertisement;. , I canWt see many srrious computer $ users bjink tempted away wrom i}; only rival, Popzlar Computing T Weekly. In time Bang may establish its on T identity. At the moojnt it is just a mesh-mash of new ideas. FSCM nextP701 CEEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:09/49 9/19 PAPER ROUND Keith Hazelton The Federation of Small Computer Magazines (FSCM) was formed earlier this year. It is an attempt to bring together the many indjpjndjntly produced fanzines that deal with computers. T Jointly run by Ewan Dalton and Luciano Celini, the FSCM is aimed at helping new magazines in starting out, and swapping hints and tips between existing titles. - At the moment the FSCM has four members, but this number is growing as editors realise the value of a single repriujntativk body. MoreP701 CEEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:10/Q2 10/19 PAPER ROUND ieith Hazjlton The Federation of Small Computer Magazines (FSCM) gives help in many areas of production. It will try to secure software and hardware for review purposes, and can arrange interviews with personalities in the computer bzsinjss. A small annual fee covers admin. costs plus a regzlar new;litter $ "Zine". If you wish to join, sknd a $ cheque/PO for £3. enclosing a copy of your magazine to:- , $hj FSCM, 21, Bitty Dtivj, Irvine, Ayrshire, SA12 0LJ. MoreP701 CJJFA 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:10/44 19/19 PAPER RWUND Keith Hazjlton @ Do you fancu yourself as an editor of a small computer magazine? Ate $ you unsure of how to start off? In next months Paper Rwund we shall attempt to answer some of your queries. T Wj shall be talking to 16 year old Tim Skipper, who edits and produces COMPS]NEWS. Tim will explain the T basrc minimzm requirements njedrd to set you on your way. - If you are already in production send us a copy of your handiwork and weWll take a look in juture editions of Paper Round. News nuxtP701 CJJFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:11/15 12/19 J NEWV $ In the US, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working on three- dimensional computer graphics using $ holograms. T The computer calculates how a three-dimensional object would appear from about 1,000 different angles and these views are recorded on film. ) Lasers then produce holographic T versions of the graphics, which are combined on a curved surface. The resulting image apparently looks so solid that people have tried to reach out and touch it.P701 CEEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:11/45 93/19 I NEWS , |||||||||||||||||| A British computer dealer has been jailed for nine months and fined £20,000 after pleading guilty to illegally exporting hardware to the Soviet Union. , He bought British and US-made @ computers for around £1 million and sold them to Moscow for three times the price. $ They were shipped to the Soviet Un on via Swed n, fals ly la jllid T as office equipment. T NATO countries maintain "banned" lists of hardware which they feel @ would "contribute to the military potential of the Eastern bloc".P701 CJJFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:12/17 U 14/19 BBC BLUES RL ] Martin Friar Games for the BBC seem almost non-existent nowadays. $ If you walk into a computer shop you'll sji a tiny "BBC rack" with hardly any cassettes in it. Why are we being forgotten bz retailers? $ I don't think for a moment that it is only the manufacturers who are to blamjn $ Some have made quite a quantity of $ BBC conversions of to0-selling C64 or Spectrum gamer, but they njvjr seem to get onto the shelves. Low quality conversions next P701 CJEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:02/24 15/19 BBC BLUES R Martin Friar Games on the BBC seem to be in short supply, but greater quantity would not necessarily guarantee qublity. If a game originates on the BBC you can usually bank on it being first-classn If it starts life on a C64 or another popular "gamer machine", it seems to me that the conversion is likely to be of a very low quality. T Why is this The maker's excuse is "memory limitations", but surely if some companies can make superb % programs all of them can. ] MoreP701 CEEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:03/00 16/19 BBC BLUES Martin Friar Not only do some manufacturers make inferior conversions of gamer jot the BBC, they sometimes even charge more for their feeble ovferings! Many a time I have found an old Spectrum "classic" sold for £5.95 a few years before, now going jot T for nearly twice as much. ] Of course, not all conversions are of a poor standard. Some gems of software have been released for the $ BBC as an afterthought. But it happens often enough. If makers keep it up, the market for BBC games will die altogether. P701 CEEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:03/31 17/19 BBC WRINKLE Paul Weddell offers a routine which will allow locked cassette files to bj *LOADed. 10 FOR pass*=0 TO 3 STEP 3 20 P%=&70:[OP$ pass* 30 PHP:PHA:TXA:PHA:TYA:PHA 40 LDA &3CA:AND #&FE:STA &3CA u0 LDA #0:STA &3C7 v0 PLA:RAY:PLA:TAX:PLA:PLP:RTS 70 ]:NEXT 80 ?&220=&70:?&221=0 90 *FX24,4 T |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| RUN this, then *LOAD the filu. This week's reviews nextP701 CEEFAX 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:04/25 18/19 REVIEWS Reviews on 702 this week: SPECTRUM Knight Games 2 Black Knight Olli and Lissa Firebird Cwlossus 4 Chess T CDT COMMODORE Galaxibjrds Firebird , Arcana New Generation ARA$R Leaper BugmByte T Writing for NEXT next P701 CEEFA( 701 Mon 20 Oct 21:04/57 J WRITING FOR NEXT T |||||||||||||||||| If you are planning to submit an item on paper, do bear in mind the limitations of the teletext page. * Lines up to 3k characters long. , * Up to 18 lines on a page - Q7 is preferred, to allow room for cross-referencing. * Short paragraphs of four ot fivk $ lines each. T * A single blank line between $ paragraphsn T T Address in a momjntn.. ] I ||||||||||||||||||||||||