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GL88DAWho's winning te 1631 ate for ing Commodore ane Ata spokes people y's amos! beeve hat bath ‘onparios wor. In an arempto get ST versus Amiga bale, we've can Ai sheet evel, Atn's ST seems i be wring te 16-01 sais bate, bt conan pockate of szeng Amiga stan are holding out. At the ‘Seund Visor shop in Leigh, Lan ‘ar, Granam Mis has reason to be hay wih ne Amga sales e's ist mona hay in Singapore fom devours The Aniga= cong fama, ne cays. i's oteeing re Virgin are following re suc ‘935 0! 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Alan Also reugt that if the Aga were Lesure Garis version” contin Patiia, who wont an 0 ay tat ‘Viger are loony 10 reasse mare ‘advarced computer eneran- ‘nent, Were looking a games in a mote stategc ven’ Bul agin are’ playing by te board alone — hyve ase a3t hor yee on oer game genes, and ‘menion histoncal smulafors a6 a possbily. Not ony al. but thor interacre vio avin Is poner Ing 4 GD ROM exoerston game about Fe Now Pole, weile otter igi someanes are vehed in ‘ceo dsiibuion and progam ax Attn The Bt market i foo: fd, decree Fares, and worm omg he way of 164 or people we ae sl king er es! games games wouldnt sand a the ST en aie HOW MANY ARE ‘THERE? Estimates of the number of 16 users vary: Commodore cam tere an reales serbase 0 310000 wie Alar cla 110000 for tre ST. 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'An Atari spokosman expressed sales ast yo, selng homo computer no Us: 1988, ne suggesien, mould be a year st conssidaion "for the aciine, wih Atari soaking to the power ofthe machine SUPER SAVERS ‘ers foo teace’s complazing Sonvare Super few issues ofthe magazine Nata ly, move tod 0 coat 9 cores ny about the slegavons of orcers se, cheques cashed but games NOT roooiod long ag0 a8 Or Fist orobem; Sofware Super saves are 0 longer al he adress in Brtwood rom which they used cure ot 72 Mort Steet, Romford 8 em: ty phoning rem all you get 2 gesing you we in wih your order ~ which what the prebiem was al 2o0u! = the ret place, ‘Atos fo contset he shop's net ond Noverter News™ jonnet, Me Clive Pullman. oy telomessage have met wth a an Readers wih a compli ae ost advised 0 corte he Trading Stondsrés Oftieer of the loca counel where Sofware Supersavers ny exetence an wil engeaveu rnestgate your pteblem. You should wile oF telepn giving al the folowing ivomaten: name, addres, telephone number, tile ‘of goods ordered, compuler the goods were ordered for, cato ot | the cheque, date when cheque was passed trough your account for payment. Wie or elpnono: | London Borough of Havering, Trang Standards Department, | Mercury House, Mercury Gar- ons, Romford, RMT SDS. Tel 0706. 765999 | ovences Compute Etre 7Fuews Most Amiga games are little more than direct conversions of their ST counterparts Amiga owners often complain, but here's something new: a game whose ST and Amiga versions are literally identical, Take the disk out of the box, put it in an ST and it's an ST game. Put it in an Amiga instead. and it's an Amiga game. I's that simple Sounds like a pacts 0? la : toy ator Imageane wit an Asn covar cate | aconamies af scale. From the sot You coud O8 foigven for rewking | malo houses and of thoes, one 80, but presige BT sofware house | dzptcaton run eaters for bot sas Find are deadly serous. The | of users. At the fetal end o! tings fevluonay nem dsk loading sys- | meanwte is ease lo decie haw fom invoWod is ADCS, ts crows | mary copes ofa gam to sc For Argonaut Sofware, Rainbie’s Pou! Hcar, the later ‘ust 9 show ow swrious they | points pariclady inporat in the | aro, Argonaut aro not usng the | Arrican market "Cutin ine States forma on ary 06 gamo, bute) treyil sll 825 and 3.5m versions sequel ther highly success 30 PC game in the same box: & shoabemup Slargldr ~ and that | simples tings for ssop-omners, moans hors an aw lot ct morey | We sugges the possbity of 2 stake. So tow have Argonaut ing en the ST are Ange, managed (0 make tha same game | bul on just te one disk, and Ar raran beth machines? More io he | nauteame tack wih ADLS. ont, wry oc they Boner? itmay be a Ranave game tat The hows of the projet are | uses ADLS sel, but Argonaut mil ty complex things ~ see below — hs to the system and But tho teasans why cuaivereon | may wal leeree 1 out to ofee iss ok atractve are quite | developers, as wel a using tn 8 Advanced Computer Enea ther owe rogiams for other sot ware houses. Theyte cieniy rove than alt way treugn a ro Jeet for Amenean gens Becronc 2s, so whal Goes EAS Merk Leis Trick of ADLS? ts prey coo ~ a rice bt ot maryng torroiogy wy sofware artsy Jez (Aqgonast boss Jaz Sar) has shown 10 us though wo Revert cacussed uang curses at length. We already procuee Topics’ ~ 525i disks ‘an Alan 600 version an the ether as well as packaging 525n and 35nosisin ne sare bor Whatever the commercia ages of ADLS, pbc foe ud til be a problem. The Aariga oncers ietnve Dae ty paling oll oo ST conversions 09 Us! ign onitely reagonabie. theres no roazen why ADLS gamae Should be any poorer at using SST falter than any ober ‘nore have atoady toon cr indignation along ese ines Sager lil rake extensive use of tne Amigas custom che win both the Amiga ané the C4OST afleng acces to a whack ng 500K of carneoa m Beside of he aise. This represents A least as goat a deal as 120K Spectum aun roraly ge thor ecra raroware, but io hery ree aitovence between STs at essential igencal Ariga ard ST Versione ot @ game, tal ought fo its hope ADLS: THE TEGHNI- CALITIES Tre S7 ano Amiga eoranl have 2 (yet dea! connor. They use he sare cental processer — the Wuolowta MC52000 - and have broadly smia’ technical epectca ions, so canveing programs rom ore the oltris a retativly sin die mater. OF ie information con ‘aned on a ypic! ST game die he game cose isl, dat, ie sereana ete areuns 90% wil De sectcal on its Amiga couriers Thats not just a consequencs of | ect conversion work tem te ore tthe oer: tras a measure of TWO INTO ONE DOES GO... ve. hee’ enag hore: the ST and Amiga dks might be 90% lrteal as fara te inform tion stored on them goot, but tna oesnt mean the informations stored in be same way, Bath 9 alaraas 39 ob, ‘Srl ge ipo ck @ mal Amiga ak wont get very lar Not. thal uineas you how what youre dong The fret hurd 10 a sual ve! sion rogram is ejection’ Both the ST and te Arg wire o ‘og fomats 88 OOK error, and telise to do anythng mth the cake ‘eoeinid. The mactines can be food ino aceootng stargoy (0 thing both machines wil accep HIGH CAPACITY in dosing thor ack aang eve Jem, Argonaut set ovt fo cram 8 much caia as possie onto the (isk Thor am in go cong was © overcome he greatest angle rand ap of he S2OST: is snge-sdas Though both have witha tans only 360K. Ths tals tat of 812K RAM ares crogrammars some ree headaches, ofr snare haus: