Big K Magazine, July 1984. Contents. GAMES PROGRAMS: DUEL for CBM 64, DAFFY CAPE for SPECTRUM, FIGHTER for ORIC, TUNNELS OF ZARNON for SPECTRUM, PEEKED AT THE POST for CBM 64, HARE LIFTS for VIC-20. UTILITY PROGRAMS: CHARACTER DEFINER for BBC, PADLOCKED for BBC. SOFTWARE REVIEWS: Review pages. HARDWARE: 68000 Assembler, Coleco Adam Review, Spectrum Disc Drive Review, Music, Maestro, Please. FEATURES: Mersey Byte Special, Steven Jobs Interview, Confessions of a Computer Snob, Richard Taylor's Spectrum Graphics, Atari Graphics. REGULARS: On-line News, Zip Code, Charts, He Wrote One, Classic Games of Our Time, Dorkslayer, Arcade Alley, Letterbase. COMPETITION: Win a CGL M5 Starter Pack. PICTURE CAPTIONS: COMPUTER SNOBS are on the increase. Spot them p.76, Which software outfit tried to rent this?, Don't you know a piano when you see one? MICRO MUSIC SPECIAL, "Waiter- there's a horse in my soup!". STAFF: Tony Tyler - Editor, Richard Burton - Assistant to Editor, Paul Walton -Features, Paul Rambali - Arcades, Andy Green - Technical, Jenny Parrot, John May, Steve Keaton, Dave Rimmer, Richard Taylor, Bernard Turner, David Ellis, Dave Eastbury, Tony Benyon, Central Art Studio - Art/Design, Doug Church - Group Art Editor, Luis Bartlett - Group Advert. Controller, John Purdie - Publishing Director. EDITORIAL ADDRESS: BIG K Room 2038, IPC Magazines Ltd., King's Reach Tower, Stamford Street, London SE1 9LS. PHONE: 01-261-5818/6249, 01-261-5660 (Advertising). EDITOR PIECE: SOUND IS probably the most neglected aspect of computer games- witness the measly tweeting of the nation's top-selling micro: the Spectrum. Even on other machines, programming musical noises can defeat even graphics experts. In BASIC, it's a chore. All this is changing (see p.60). Stereo on the Amstrad and Enterprise tell their own story. Now we have MIDI - a sort of aural MSX - to help you make your micro talk to synthesisers, and keyboards. It's clear that the days of the tin-eared are numbered. From the top, now... TONY TYLER.
