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• GAMES A golden sand and the beaut: Hful aqua. What a way to take a holl day. E just lying on the sun—drenched sand, soaking up the glorious ! rays of the daystar. And the T girls! Wow! Ah! this is the life, think a I'll have a swim. h What's this magazine? Hmmin. the oil crisis worsens with a war imminent. i US and Russian military build-up t as the dispute heats up. The i US ambassador has been kidnapped , - if the terrorists' demands are not met they will shoot him through t the head and leave his body h on the steps of the US embassy. e c A message from General Braxton awaits you in the reception room of the o holiday village on the edge of othe island. You are summoned to Washington l immediately where you w will be briefed and dispatched with one objective. Severely inconvenience i the US ambassador's captives n and bing him back - alive! d The operation. code name , Iceman, must be handled with the greatest care lest it all ends disastrously. This is a bit of a breakaway from the standard Sierra adventure. Although the game begins with the usual play-style of Sierra, it soon changes to a bit of a simulation as you enter a sophisticated submarine to gain access to the terrorists. But first you must find you way about Tahiti. After falling off my stool in a blind drunken stupor after buying this pretty girl a few drinks I realised that this was not Leisure-suit Larry I was playing here and restarted. Although the graphics are not exactly what you would expect From an Amiga, they are reasonable and very colourful. The tropical music that drifts across the island and the more rock style that's at home in the bar is very good and you can hear different instrumental sounds. The beginning became quite tedious for me. I found myself wasting a vast amount of time strolling across three or four screens time after time. Although Code-Name: Iceman requires at least 1Mb of RAM. the software doesn't keep many screens in memory, and constant disk accessing slows things down quite dramatically. In fact I got very bored waiting for the scenery to 42 AMIGA COMPUTING Novenrihnr 2990 change all the time, Many of the computer's responses take quite a while to appear, too. There are few new additions to the Sierra game-play method.Previously, if you wanted to look at a particular thing. you would have to %Ilk to it first then type the command. Now in many cases you can simply look at an object from a distance, else your character will walk towards it. Many doors will now open for you when you approach them to avoid having to type "open door" — a great improvement, Fin arlaalMINI +aa 8- a , 1.11111. at • — — keit= is Sierra's first quest to combine a tough adventure with a combat simulator. The Blackhawk's control pane) is neatly laid out, and should cause no problems when trying to navigate whilst in the midst of battle sure you'll agree. As usual the packaging contains all the dourmentation necessary to enable ypn to navigate your way about the game. An (apparently) authentic submarine navigation chart of the Western Hemisphere accompanies the game and proves invaluable when you get to your single seater USS Black Hawk submarine. Equipped with eight harpoon radar seeking missiles, torpedoes and sea mines, this underwater military vessel carries up-to-theminute technology. Iceman really should be played The Blackhawk's arsenal Includes three types of torpedo, each one producing , l e v a s t a t i n g e f f e c t s o n i m p a c t irom a hard disk, but with five floppies in the package, it's going to swallow a large portion of your A590! Still, if you are prepared to wait for the game to access itself, I believe it's worth it. Andrew Banner Codename Iceman E29.95 SierralActivision Overall - 76% a 5 1
with five . it's going on of your aepared to BS itself, I ew Banner PRICES INCLU • E.1.95 For Post & Packaging Next Day Courier 0.95 Please snake cheques payable to E.PD. CORPORATE EDUCATION & TRADE EN S LIMES WELCOME UROPEAN PERIPHERAL DISTRIBUTION Peripheral House DEFT A6, Unit M Cranford Gardens Compton Acres West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7SE (0602) 841640 Ai 3V all our 2discs are 100% 50 42p 3 9 p certified " error free with Da no quibble lifetime i warranty!!! s 100 500 1000 5000 41p 40p 38p 36p 3 3 3 2 8 5 2 9 p p p p we guarantee c to beat that price or you can have the discs free!! ACCESSORIES s Roll 1000 labels £ 6 . 9 5 f 50 Cap. Box f 3 95 r 1/ o 05.00 with 2 clock m 09.95 m A500 2 4MB Ram expansion for under E100!!! e 9 g p u p S g O r N a Y d S e 4 tto 6 Mega s yte Memory Board for the A500 The BASEboard a is a memory upgrade card for the Amiga A500. It provides a battery backed clock and allows you to increase the memory of your Amiga to as much as 4.5 megabytes. If you need more just add nthe 2 megabyte XRAM daughter board and expand to a total of 6.5 megabytes, All without using the expansion bus. The memory can dbe increased in 512K increments by adding industry standard low power 256K X 4 (DIP) DRAM chips in the sockets provided. The BASEboards unique design allows contiguous memory blocks of 2 megabytes a for the professional video user and dedicated • Multi-layer (4) memory board insures data integrity • 100% compatible with all Amiga software • Supports Kickstart 1.2/1.3 and all revisions of the A500 game player. The BASEboard is fully compatible with both the 512K (Fat) and I mb r (Fatter) versions of the Agnus chip. It supports all versions of Kickstart and all revisions of the A500 mother board that installs in the d A501 slot and the "Gary" socket. The ultra quiet multilayer memory board insures data integrity. The Baseboard upgrade gives you A2000 memory power at A500 prices J a • 100% compatible with with Fat and Fatter Agnus chips • User expandable, fully socketed Ram array • Industry standard low power 256K X 4 DRAM • Easy "plug-in" installation without soldering • One year warranty If you can see any other company advertising discs at a more competitive price 100 Cap Box f 4 95 256K x 4 DRam £29.95 per 1 3 Rom £ 2 9 . 9 5 3/ Amiga's 12 from / 1 meg Amiga's from 2 E59.95 059.00 095.00 " Unpopulated D 512K populated rI Mb populated i1.5Mb populated v2Mb populated e 2.5Mb populated S3Mb populated l3.5Mb populated i 4Mb populated m l FEATURES: i• 4 megabyte increase in memory £99.95 £124.95 £149.95 £174.95 £199.95 £224.95 £249.95 £274.95 £299.95 • 2 megabyte daughter board increases total to 6 megabytes. n• Memory boards fits in A501 slot in base of A500 e• Battery backed up clock
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