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The Cheetah Remote Action Transmitter is the most
sophisticated computer controller available.
It has these features:
To Infra Red transmission - so there are no leads trailing
across the living room. Just sit back in your chair up to
30 feet from your machine.
7 Touch control - no moving parts, extremely fast, long life.
7 No extra software required.
1 Can be used with all Cheetah RAT/Kempston compatible
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software.
•Fits comfortably in your hand for long play periods.
f f Comes complete with receiver/interface unit which simply
plugs into the rear of your Spectrum.
N Compatible with all Sinclair/Cheetah peripherals via the
rear edge connector.
Simply incredible at 0 9 . 9 5 including VAT and p 8rp.
Dealer enquiries welcome. Export orders at no extra cost.
Send cheque/po now to:
Cheetah Marketing Ltd. (Dept. YS), 24 Ray Street, London EC1R 3DJ. phone 01.833 4909
Cheetah products are also available from branches of
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TOP 20
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The games software charts for
March, voted entirely by you!
SPECTRUM
ADVENTURES
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Hints and tips from Castle
Rathhone, with Clive Gifford.
Dave Nicholls and Peter Shaw.
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DESIGN A
SPECTRUM+
'[here's £1,000 of Spectrum
software and peripherals to be
won. Turn those pages fast!
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Hey, Anyone Seen A Ghost?
Activision's Ghostbusters— will
'bustin' make you feel good? Ross
MARS
FRONTUNES
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New, views and reviews! All
this, Hacking Away, Hard
Core and From The Hip too
FORUM
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Disturbing diatribes, dynamic
debates and DIY — it's all in
this month's postbag.
INPUT/OUTPUT 6 7
Subscribe to the YSfree
classified ad service and you'll
make a few friends into the
bargain!
CIRCE
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Sue Denham catches up with
the enigmatic Joey.
programmer extraordinairc.
Holman and Dave Nicholls
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Joystick Jury Four action-packed
pages of critical comment from our
resident panel of jurors. Ross
Tuning Up Musically illiterate
but you know what you like? Step
inside — have we got a program for
Holman, Dave Nicholls and Roger
Willis
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Goodwin
Multisearch Mr ZIP's back! And
he's fronting an amazing utility to
provide you with a 'Search and
Replace' function. Simon
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VS N1EGABASIC
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Don't get caught without a
copy! It's the inexpensive
miracle on cassette
SUBSCRIPTIONS 1 4
BACK ISSUES
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Byte Hi — No Limit! Cartoon
critic, Harry Hacker tackles
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Fantasy's Backpacker's Guide To
The Universe. Hunt Emerson
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G E NE RAL E NQ L I RI LS
Editor Roger Munford
Publisher Stephen Fnglantl
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Mac Man One hundred per cent
machine code madness — the
idea's old, but the program's gold!
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Into The Music? If music be the
food of love t h e r e ought to be
some amazing music packages for
the ZX Spectrum! Find out
ADV E RT1 S I M I N Q U I R I E S
Advertising Manager Joe
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YS I I I I.P1.INE
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Stuart Jamieson
inside A d r i a n Wagner
BAIT 4E' ONE
An enchanting Christmas
game based on
RAYMOND BRIGGS' best
selling book and film.
48K Spectrum
AGame of strategy that
will test your mind to
its limits.
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Afantastic fight to
the death within your
own bloodstream!
BloodliGuts
Abattle to the
end with the
deadliest killers
in the Galaxy!
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UICIMILVA
available from
Tel. (0202) 891744
I Quicksilva Mail Order, P.O. Box 6, Wimborne, Dorset BA21 7 1
You're now entering Frontlines country t u r n those pages for news of the
rumoured Spectrum upgrade, the Cheetah compo winners and much more!
O TTOLAUNCH!
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If you* re bored with
software that repeatedly
may well be worthwhile
before considering
crashes through loading
errors, never fear — Sir
Clive has now
introduced hardware
that can be crashed!
The Sinclair CS is
claimed to be -
power e w
a n in personal
transport" and the
"vehicle of the future".
Its actual constituent
parts arc a 'squirrel-
mgt. electric motor (the
basic design of which
originated in the late
nineteenth century and
has been used in
washing machines ever
since!), a lead-acid
battery (of similarly
venerable antecedents),
a welded pressed-steel
frame (not conceptually
unadjacent to that
Roge r Willis m e e ts the CS — "Hone s t guy, the
r ubbe r ba nd c a m e off in m y ha nds !"
employed in any early
'50s NSU motorcycle)
The Sinclair CS will
retail at only 0 9 9 ,
and, oh yes, bodywork
that profiles as the
largest polypropolene
injection moulding ever
mass-produced.
which is the same price
as the Sinclair QI.,„ but
waiting for the
emergence of an
'infinite lives' POKE
purchase. Expert
criticisms of its safety
and stability abound at
its launch, motorcycle
stunt rider and leading
road safety campaigner
Dave Taylor was
impolitely requested to
desist from
demonstrating the C5's
tendency to climb on to
two wheels instead of its
usual three (before
falling over completely!).
Fourteen years may
be old enough to drive a
Sinclair CS on the main
roads without suitable
safety measures (such as
helmet, safety belt and
so on) b u t it could
also be old enough to
die in one!
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THESOUNDOFMUSIC
industry for many years,
it's now been adapted to
work on the Speccy
system. The Digital
Sound Sampler allows
you to record a noise —
any noise — and then
play back the digital
recording in any way
you wish e i t h e r as it
was recorded or back-
wards, at a different pitch.
expanded. In fact, you
can do almost anything!
The S peccy bar ks ba c k ! (Ba c h's ba c k ?)
With a price tag of
£49.99 it's not too far
out of the range o f your
t s
G ood ne w s for all K e m ps t on j oysti ck a nd
Ce ntr oni c s i nte r fa c e ow ne r s . The tr oubl e us e d to
be tha t if you had a r e pl a c e m e nt k e y boa r d, the r e
w a s n't e nough c l e a r a nc e to pl ug In the l oysti ck
itself. So, the c om pa ny has pr oduc e d thi s fl exi bl e
e x t e nde r cabl e a t £ 7 . 9 5 w hi c h m oves the i nter -
fa c e a w a y fr om the ba c k of the k e y boa r d. Give
Ke m ps t on a buz z on (0 2 3 4 )8 5 2 9 9 7 .
Have you ever wanted
to play Bach's Fugue in
D minor to the merry
sound of a dog barking?
Well, now you can do it
— with Dater!, clever
add-on, the Digital
Sound Sampler.
Although slightly
larger versions of the
device have been
around the music
average Spectrum user.
If you can't wait for a
full review in Your
Spectrum, then give
Datel a ring on (0782)
273815.
THEPOWEROFCASH
Well, it had to happen.
The music and micro
industries are far too
close together for the
two tribes not to mix
with each other. And
so, following
negotiations between
Ocean and Island
Records. Liverpool hit
band Frankie Goes To
Hollywood will get its
very own computer
game.
Ocean can be
contacted on 061-832
6633 for the FranIde
fans out there.
D YOUWANTTOKNOWASECRET?
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Purchasers of Design
Designs' program Dark
Star are getting a bonus
in the shape o f an extra
game on the tape called
Spectacle, Comprising
some 40K of code, the
company aren't letting
users run the program,
as a password must be
Bearing in mind that
the password is about
26 characters in length,
there could be a lot of
worn out tape decks
around if Design Design
don't come up with the
!.00ds fairly soon.
Rel ax F r a n k i e ' s gone to O c e a n.
typed in before it will
start.
The encryption
method used is a fairly
standard one whereby
the text of the password
entered is used to
modify the code before
it's run. This means that
the password doesn't
have to be stored within
the code.
O ath S ta r 's dar k s e c r e t .
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