Editorial

Welcome to the first (and possibly the last on the ST) double-sided
issue of SynTax, double-sided especially to bring you Brainchild,
designed exclusively for you by High Voltage Software, authors of
Cortizone. I'll let them tell you all about it in the relevant
section of the disk but it's a very exciting idea and I hope
you'll be as interested in it as I am ... and that as many of you
as possible will join in on the project. You don't have to
contribute reams of ideas, even one small one will be welcome.

I had originally planned to make this a dual format disk but the
only dual-formatter I could find had a restriction of 40-odd files
per disk - not enough for an issue of SynTax. You might be
interested to know that up to Issue 14 SynTax had provided
reviews for 187 adventures, hints for 125 games and solutions to
100! Not bad, huh? Seeing how much material I get through each
issue, you can appreciate how important your contributions are and
I must say, once again, that I am very short of them, especially
reviews. I know reviewing can seem a daunting task when you first
consider it - it was ages before I agreed to do my first one on
Micronet as Marion will confirm! - but it really is great fun once
you get going so why not give it a try?

This issue's hot news is that by the time you get this disk,
SynTax will also be available on the PC, thanks to Graham Cluley,
author of Jacaranda Jim and Humbug who has spent his spare time
writing a program to run it ..... thanks, Graham!  It won't
contain screenshots (I'll provide a printout of them instead, as
for the Amiga version) and the maps will be shown as strict text
files but the three-in-one hints are the same as the ST version
and the magazine runs in a very similar way except that it uses
the arrow keys and TAB key for file selection rather than the
mouse as not all PCs have them. If anyone would like to swap to
the PC version, just let me know.

See you in the next issue - if not in Red Herring!
                                                      Sue