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CDL A1500 • Checkmate Digital bring you the Ultimate peripheral for the A500. • T h e A 1 5 0 0 M i n i - W o r k s t a t i o n CDL A1500 80 Mildmay Park. London, NI 4PR Tel 071-923 0658 Fax 071-254 1655 A1500 Base Unit Internal 86 Pin Slot Internal Quiet Fan A590 Hard Drive A590 with 2meg ram A500 Flight Pack 3.5 inch Floppy 1084 Stereo Monitor Microway Flicker Fixer Above for A500 E230.00 69.00 E. 24.95 E389.00 E499.00 E389.00 E 79.95 E249.00 E299.00 E349.00 I Ring For Ram Chip Prices eg. 256x4 (A590 etc) E56.00 / Megabyte We can supply CSA 68030 33mhz Mega midget Racer, A5000 beater. With 50 mhz 68882 Maths Chip. I 13 I CDL A 1500 111 Everybody is talking about Checkmate's A150:), and no wonder. By using the Standard <strong>Amiga</strong> A500, you can now assemble a real Mini-Workstation. Using the A1500 and newly released internal 86 pin expansion slot, a system of real power and versatility can be built on a tight budget. If your application is CAD or DTP then you can add the Microway Flicker Fixer for a rock steady display on any VGA monitor. Add to this a hard disk controller. extra memory, a high speed hard drive or two, and you have real power, all in one neat, small footprint. S I1 druid You E there lough peopl blow' In! boot 1 and A not q using as th mstn So me very belie' these in or out s It car mow the s! Er, tosh, these Ar this: craft simu gene duce that furth If ever . pack etabl lion: just then, are plea to as that 1 Oi first Stan grdP ] scret craft EXCE W hi imp 1s/ ing wa) N o A The edgt you be a It elan
p d no Ai can A1500 slot, a a tight ou can isplay troller, nd you otprint. S games who's plot reads like drunken I gamesters hallucinations You M see, up there in the future, l• there is one, wars are no longe: fought U out on the battlefield, with people L getting dirty, cold, and then blown C intofleshy components. R Instead the interested parties boot up their copies of Populous X A and wage war via computer. Well, inot quite. They do wage war, but s using simulated forces. Simulcraft. o as they are known are thebasic instrument of destruction. n So what's all this got to do with e me I can hear you asking (I have overy large ears). Well, who would f believe it but the computer running these war games has decided to get tin on the act for real, by sending hout simulcraft into the real world. oIt can do this because of the enor- s mous energies contained within the system. e Er. yes. Alright, so its a load of testi. Don't blame me, I don't write those scenarios you know. Anyway, what you have to do is this: Guide your very own simulcraft around the 30 odd levels of simulator land, destroying energy generators. These generators produce lorcefields within the levels that prevent you from going any further, If you destroy all the generators everywhere then the computer packs up shop and turns into a vegetable rack, It does beg the question: Why doesn't the computer just create some more generators then, since it created the ones you are bent on destroying in the first place? I've no idea so you'll have to ask Microprose for the answer to that one. Once you actually get going the first thing you notice are the 3 -Starglider 2/Virusfinterphase like D, graphics and the second is that the screen rotates around your simulcraft, rather like US Cold's Rotox. Except that was in 2-D of course. which makes this all the more impressive. Most of the time you are trucking along narrow, winding pathways, with a sharp drop into Nowhereville beckoning. Thankfully you can't fall off the edge. You just rebound from it. you could fall off the game would be a nightmare. It isn't though, and you can race along a tremendous speeds blasting The red border is diffused by taking out certain power stations. Four weapons are available to aid you doing this away at everything that flashes by. Of course you may end up at a section where there is no land area. At which point you leap into the nearest simulkiosk and whip out your wings. If you also have jet propellant then you can take off and fly over to the next platform. or you can just zip around, strafing all the enemy positions up and down the matrix. What you must watch out for are the red energy barriers. Even while flying you can't get past them, and at living speeds your front shield will suffer a large fright if you run into one. The other airborne hazard to beware of are the computers own simulcraft and planes which circle around like vultures waiting for an opening. Blast one as soon as it appears or it'll be perpetually sniping at you from above. Extra weapons and equipment to combat the simulforces appear phoenix like from the ashes of defeated installations. There's ECM, homing missiles, energy boosts shield replacements, radar and other stuff besides. In fact there really isn't any shortage of power ups as long as you keep on blasting everv• thing. On the earlug front Simulcra doesn't offend, but never rises very far above average. All the expected bangs and rattles accompany the action, and the obligatory tune does its thing to reasonable effect. Although Simulcra isn't as puzzle orientated as Rolm, it is considerably faster, has impressive GAMES Shooting the many assailants reveals the weapon pods which re-arm you rotating 3-D graphics, is easy to play, and yet offers a 30 level challenge that will take some beating. So I liked it (which is surprising considering how notoriously tardy I am) and if you shell out the necessary dosh I believe you will too. Duncan Evans Simulcro E24.95 Firebini Sound Graphics Gameplay VatuP Overall — 79%) AM I GA LU M PLI TI N G N OVVR I be l I I f I •
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