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Issue 56
November 1986

Editor
David Kelly
Deputy editor
John Gilbert
Senior staff writer
Graham Taylor
Staff writer
Jim Douglas
Designer
Gareth Jones
Editorial secretary
Norisah Fenn
Adventure help
Gordo Greatbelly
Zapchat
Jon Riglar
Helpline
Andrew Hewson
Hardware Correspondent
John Lambert
Contributors
Brendon Gore
Richard Price
Rupert Goodwins
Andy Moss
Gary Rook
John Pope
Advertisement manager
Louise Fanthorpe
Senior sales executive
Jacqui Pope
Production assistant
Alison Morton
Advertisement secretary
Linda Everest
Subscriptions manager
Carl Dunne
Publisher
Terry Pratt

Sinclair User is published monthly by EMAP Business and Computer Publications

Cover illustration Stewart Hughes

SOFTWARE
AFTERSHOCKInterceptor
ARTIST IISoftechnics
ASTERIXMelbourne House
BASIC COMPILERHisoft
BOMB SCAREFirebird
BUMP SET SPIKEMastertronic
CAPTAIN KELLYQuicksilva
CAPTAIN SLOGCRL
CONQUESTADOREMelbourne House
DRUIDFirebird
DANDYElectric Dreams
FIRELORDHewson
FRONT PAGE (QL)Gap
GALVANImagine
HARDBALLAdvance
H.R.H.Eighth Day
IT'S A KNOCKOUTOcean
KAI TEMPLEFirebird
NIGHTMARE RALLYOcean
OLLI AND LISSAFirebird
OLYMPIAD 86Atlantis
OUTWORLDDurome
PRODIGYElectric Dreams
PUB GAMESAlligata
QATS (QL)Cope
ROOM 10CRL
SBUGETTI JUNCTIONBug Byte
SCOOBY DOOElite
SHREWSBURY KEYPlayers
STRIKE FORCE COBRAPiranha
TT RACERDigital Integration
URIDIUMHewson
VIDEO OLYMPICSMastertronic
VIDEO POKERMastertronic
ZACARON MYSTERYPlayers
COVER SMASH

Dandy vs Druid

PREVIEWS

Digging up the hottest software news first
Including Terra Cresta, Twice Shy, Cobra, Dante's Inferno, Tempest, Fairlight II, Academy, Tarzan, Terminus, Explorer ...

FEATURES

The complete mouse survey
We take the meeces to pieces - both for the Spectrum and the QL - and trap the best ones

128K+2 programming
What's so good about the 128K+2's sound and Basic? All your important questions about the new machine answered

MICROS IN THE MOVIES
Sigourney Weaver

The Making of Aliens
Aliens the movie will soon be Aliens the game from Electric Dreams. Designer Mark Eyles gives away a few secrets

The movies whirled
If you're a software house and you haven't licenced a blockbuster movie for this Xmas then you're going nowhere. We've been grovelling around on the cutting room floor - and just look what we've found!

NEW FEATURE

Code Talk
Smart chaps from the world of hex addresses talk candidly about something else. This month: Dan Dare authors Dave Chapman and Martin Wheeler

HARDWARE

Cheetah sound sampler
Take a look at Cheetah's latest music aadd-add-o-o-n-n-n-n-n

DIY PROJECT

128K+2 interface
All you need to know to build your own interface to connect a 'normal' non-Amstradified joystick to the new 128K+2

SURVEY

Joystick Top Ten (well, eleven)
Try the waggle test! We did. The cheapest. The strongest. The coolest. The fastest

PRINTOUT

Axe Hero
Boggle
Mouse Al
Tree Builder

COMPETITIONS

Howard the Duck
Now I know ducks tend to be dependable and dowdy not dynamic and dangerous - but Howard's different. He's from another planet.

He's also in a big bucks movie - and we've got cinema tickets to win!

He's an Activision game - and we've got tapes to win!

And he's a poster - and we've got them too!

SPECIAL OFFER

Joysticks a go-go
We smash 25 per cent off the cost of joysticks - YOU could have a Gunshot 1 at the end of YOUR arm

REGULARS

News
Charts
Letters
ZapChat
Competition Winners
Hewson's Helpline
Gordo's Adventure tips
Sinclair Surgery
Background Noise - Paperboy
Next Month
Gremlin

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Sinclair User
ISSN No. 0262-5458


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