Issue 45 - Gremlin Main Contents News

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Issue 46
January 1986

EDITORIAL
Editor
Bill Scolding
Deputy editor
John Gilbert
Staff writers
Chris Bourne
Clare Edgeley
Designer
Gareth Jones
Editorial secretary
Norisah Fenn
Publisher
Neil Wood

ADVERTISING
Advertisement manager
Louise Fanthorpe
Deputy advertisement manager
Shahid Nizam
Advertisement sales executive
Kathy McLennan
Production assistant
Jim McClure
Advertisement secretary
Linda Everest

MAGAZINE SERVICES
Subscriptions Manager
Carl Dunne

Sinclair User is published monthly by EMAP Business and Computer Publications

Cover illustration Asterix © 1985 Les Editions Albert Rene Goscinny - Uderzo

SOFTWARE
Spectrum Software
I, of the Mask
Adventure
Robin of Sherlock

SPECTRUM SOFTWARE
Travel into the future with I, of the Mask, play the mercenary in Commando and Saboteur, join forces with the Thunderbirds, and hone your fighting skills in Gladiator and International Karate. Make music with Wham! The Music Box, don your crash helmet for Endurance, mix some magic in Spellbound, and sharpen your wits in Tau Ceti [three parts]

TOP 30
Elite proves the sky's the limit

QL SOFTWARE
Make classic moves in The Pawn, and imitate the Atari ST with ICE

ADVENTURE
Neverending Story arrives at last, but Richard Price prefers Robin of Sherlock

BUSINESS SOFTWARE
Balance the books with QL Payroll, make collecting easy with V-Notch

HIT SQUAD
Chris Bourne dines on Mastertronic and sample the tastiest games in town

FEATURES

GREMLIN QUIZ
Everything you never wanted to know. Gremlin poses some obscure and stunningly irrelevant questions

THE SINCLAIR STORY
The launch of the ZX81 and Spectrum is covered in the final extract of Rodney Dale's biography of Sir Clive

COMMUNICATIONS
Chris Bourne meets the brains behind Micronet and monitors what you get from your modem

HARDWARE

HARDWARE WORLD
Listen to the beat with Specdrum

JOYSTICKS
Get stuck into this - the joystick connoisseur's compendium

PROGRAMMING

MACHINE CODE
Marcus Jeffery clears rectangles for a windowing routine

HELPLINE
Enlarge your memory by condensing data. Andrew Hewson is your shrink

COMPETITION
Asterix Competition

ASTERIX
Asterix and Obelix get into trouble. 100 copies of Asterix and the Magic Cauldron to be won

LORD OF THE RINGS
Sort out your runes and win 50 copies of Lord of the Rings

MICRONET OFFER
Modem and membership - all for £40

COMPETITION RESULTS
Winners of Superman and Magic

LISTINGS

PROGRAM PRINTOUT
Dodge the aliens and dynamite the mountain in Krakatoa 2012, write your own adventures with Adventurer, predict your height in Walk Tall

REGULARS

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Sinclair User
ISSN No. 0262-5458


Issue 45 - Gremlin Main Contents News