SINCLAIR USER, August 1985
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ISOTOPES
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DANGEROUS radioactive material lies buried in the weeds at the bottom of the
ocean. The sub is ready and waiting. Bring the canisters up to the ship
before the time runs out  but beware the blue octopi; their tentacled touch
is deadly. Isotopes runs on the 48K Spectrum.


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ROTATOR
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THIS UTILITY by Dave Trebilcock of Sale in Cheshire for any Spectrum allows
strings to be printed in any direction on the screen. Characters stored in
the Spectrum ROM or the user-defined character area can be stated in this
fashion.
The following variables must be set up before the routine can be used:
Line and col - used to hold start position of printing.
rotate       - degree of character rotation (90, 180, 270).
d$           - direction of printing: r=right and left; d=down; u=up
z$           - string to be printed.
Lines 100-190 contain a demonstration. The utility can be added to any BASIC
program and starts at line 9000. It is set up using the variables shown above.


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SHOPKEEPER
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BE YOUR OWN street-corner capitalist in Shopkeeper by L.N.Langley of Bury St
Edmunds, Suffolk. The game runs on a 48K Spectrum or Spectrum Plus, and sets
you the task of running a corner shop for a year. You must choose from a
large range of goods in stock, and take weather and holidays into account.
Those factors can also affect your advertising strategies.
Experienced programmers should find it easy to alter the parameters for
various products if they desire, and add extra random events and hazards with
ease.


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TARGET
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SHARPEN up your wits for Target by David Myles of Methil Leven, Fife. The
program runs on a 48K Spectrum or Spectrum Plus, and is that rare thing, an
educational game which is actually fun to play.
You are given a row of numbers and must choose two by firing at them. You may
then add, substract or multiply them to try and get as close as possible to a
target number. The game is for two players and besides improving your mental
arithmetic it also contains plenty of scope for clever strategy. Full
instructions are provided in the program.


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