Editorial

Welcome to Issue 10 of SynTax and a very happy New Year to you
all. I hope you all had as enjoyable a Christmas as we did and I'd
like to thank everyone who sent Christmas cards, we've never had
so many stuck on the wall as we did this time. Sadly, it's over
all too soon and life goes back to normal, or what passes for it
in this household!

Over the last few months, I've made a few additions to the
computer, upgrading the memory from its original 520K to a massive
2 1/2 meg! If anyone is considering a memory upgrade, I can
thoroughly recommend the DIY kit from Frontier in Harrogate - not
too expensive and it was easy and quick to fit. I also bought a
colour monitor just after the last issue and still can't believe
how much better the display is compared to my old colour telly.
I can even read the text in Legend of Djel - not that it has
made the game more playable.....

Fancy saving some money? Cum-Com Software, who have been
advertising in SynTax for a while, have made an offer of free
membership (normally costing œ7.00) to SynTax readers. Just tell
them you're a reader when you contact them. Being a member of
Cum-Com is an excellent way of evaluating software before you buy
it and they offer an excellent discount when you purchase software
from them. With games getting increasingly expensive, I'd
thoroughly recommend that you send for their membership pack and
see just how many adventures and RPGs they have in their list.

Martyn Westwood of Interactive Technology recently ran a
prize draw linked to his latest game, Weird Tales, where the
first prize was a year's subscription to SynTax. The draw was made
mid-December and the winner was Terry Roberts. Terry is already a
subscriber so his sub has been extended to Issue 18 - May '92! The
runners-up were David Stocks and M. Andrews so congratulations to
all of them.

I mentioned last issue about the possibility of including a bit of
PC coverage in future issues as I knew quite a few of you had PC
emulators. The number turned out to be even higher than I had
expected and I've had a lot of calls and letters saying "yes" and
not one saying "no". So you can expect an odd PC review, hints or
solution from now on. All the games will, of course, have to run
with an emulator to be included.

Two of the AGT adventures in the PD list have turned out to be
fatally bugged - Star Portal and Pyramid of Muna. I wrote two
letters to Softworks in the States asking them to sort it out
but heard nothing, so Neil and I have been getting to grips with
AGT (see Neil's review of Star Portal in this issue) and working
versions are now available. I think I've replaced all the faulty
disks but if I've missed one (say, if you had one in exchange for
a contribution), let me know and I'll send you a new disk by return.

Thanks again to all of you for supporting SynTax through 1990. I
hope you'll find the magazine even better in 1991. All the best
to you all and your families - have a happy, healthy and
successful year,
                                        Sue