Personal Computer News


Software Preview

 
Published in Personal Computer News #053

The new releases.

Games

Commodore
For the 64, Audiogenic has launched a range of disk-based games to add to your boxed sets. For £12.95 each they are Frantic Freddie, Pegasis, Forbidden Forest, Aztec Challenge and Slinky. All have various levels of difficulty and in case you manage to reach an undocumented level, Audiogenic has set up a counselling service to help you out. The company can be reached through PO Box 88, Reading, Berks.

Terminal Software (061-773 9313) wants you to don overalls for its latest game - Plumb Crazy, also for the 64 and costing £7.95.

Ocean Software (061-832 9143) has an international flavour to its Chinese Juggler game - the idea originated in Hungary and won prices in Budapest before becoming available for the Commodore 64 via Manchester. The game costs £6.90 and will be ready for the Spectrum and BBC soon.

Mogul's (01-734 6080) latest launches run on the Vic-20 as well as the 64 and versions for the Spectrum are also available. The titles are Fire Ant, Labyrinths of the Creator, Mushroom Alley, Ludwig's Lemon Lasers, Chomper Man, Seawolf and The Great Adventure Pack No. 2. The prices are £7.95.

Strategic Simulations (0101 415 964 1353) has adapted several war games to run on the 64 - Germany 1985 pits you against Soviet Troops and RDF (Rapid Development Force) 1985 switches the scene but not the enemy. Others include Battle for Normandy, Knights of the Desert and Combat Leader. They should be available through Softsel distributors here.

Sinclair
Computer Rentals (CRL - 01-533 2918) has pulled the plug on Glug-Glug, its latest program for the 48K Spectrum. This machine code game has 32 levels and costs £5.95.

BBC
Molecule is a 'game of logic' from Bridge Software (061-832 4209) but even so it involves saving the world, in this instance from a virus. Subtitled 'Beat the Bug', it costs £6.90 - Alistair MacLean paperbacks are rather less.

Education

BBC
System Software (0742 682321) has four new titles in stock for anybody who wants to take a slightly off-beat look at education. Easywrite (£10) is intended to help in the development of ideas in the early stages of literacy: Stock (£14.95) illustrates a stock control system for simulation and project work; Survival (£14.95) looks at social organisation and development; and Multitest (£14.95) looks at social organisation and development; and Multiset (£14.95) is 'a multi-lingual educational utility'.

Kosmos (05255 3942) has followed up its French Mistress with The German Master and The Spanish Tutor, language tuition courses that cost £9.95 each.

Various
For the Commodore 64, the 48K Spectrum and the Oric Atmos/Oric-1 Softshop International (01-377 8034) has a series of educational games in English and other languages for five to 10 year-olds. The price is £9.95 and addition, subtraction, spelling, numbers and alphabet are covered.

Business

Unix
A full range of accounting software from Bivius (0903 212481) is now offered to users of Unix-based systems. Sphinx (0682 75342) has made the same move with Peachtree's accounting packages, offering them to Unix users after adapting them in house.

Bryan Skinner