Help Offered Marion Taylor, 504 Ben Jonson House, Barbican, London EC2Y 8NH. MerC Tel: 0424-434214 any reasonable time. Dave Barker Tel: 071-732-1513 Mon-Fri 7pm-10pm. Steve McLaren Tel: 0843-299819 Mon-Thurs 7pm-9pm or write to 6 Mere Gate, Margate, Kent, CT9 5TR can help with the following adventures: Graphical - KQ 1+2+4+5, SQ 1+2+3, PQ 1, Larry 2+3, Conquest of Camelot, Future Wars, Operation Stealth, Loom (standard mode), Monkey Island 1+2, Lure of the Temptress, Curse of Enchantia, Legend of Kyrandia, Journey. Text - Red Moon, Lords of Time, Scapeghost, Ingrid's Back, Gnome Ranger, Zork 1+2, Wishbringer, Planetfall, Grue-knapped, Enchanter, Midnight Thief, Spiro Legacy, Four Symbols, Plundered Hearts, Shymer, Trinity, Unnkulian 1, Disenchanted. John Wildey Tel 071-652-4823 is willing to give help on the more up-to-date PC adventures and RPGS in particular though he can also help with some golden oldies. Please ring after 6pm weekdays or any reasonable time at weekends. * * NB New Phone Number! * * James Judge, 33 Chidley Cross Road, East Peckham, Nr Tonbridge, Kent, TN12 5BX Tel: 0622 871679 6pm-9pm weekdays, 1pm-9pm weekends, can help on the following games: Text - Tark, Pyramid of Muna, Unnkulian I, Invasion, Sinbad, Pork I and II, HHGTTG, Excuse Me RPGs - Captive, Bloodwych, Dungeon Master Graphical - Lure of the Temptress, Another World, Operation Stealth Strategy - Deuteros, Powermonger, Populous II (tips and cheats for those two), Utopia, Chaos, Caesar Other - Hysula, The Maze Technical - anything STed, advice on peripherals and upgrading as well but nothing to do with the insides! Wanted - 1 Exile Solution! James is also willing to 'soup up' droids from Captive. Send him a disk (ST only) and letter stating how you want them trained (either good in automatics but not shotguns etc) and he'll get the droids up to the level(s) required with as much money and kit as possible. Also if you're stuck on a certain base, send him a saved position at the start of the base and he'll get the droids through it with the least possible damage. PLUS, he is also willing to help ST or PC (3.5" 720K DD disks only) owners who have lost data though accidental deleting. Just send him a copy of the disk with the wiped file on it and he'll do his best to restore it. The only types of mistake he can't fix is when the computer is reset during a save. Please send sufficient postage for James to return your disk(s) for this and the Captive offer. John Moore Tel 0785-51390 can offer hints on Eternam and SQ5 plus many other games including a lot of the older games. Please ring between 17:30 - 23:00 any night except Monday. Jean Childs, 24 Waverley Road, Bagshot, Surrey, GU19 5JL, Tel 0276-475391 evenings/weekends, is willing to offer help with STAC programming. The Grue!, 64 County Road, Ormskirk, West Lancs, L39 1QH, Tel 0695 573141 7:30-9:30 Mon-Fri, will help on any Infocom game and also give help with TADS programming. You can also contact me by letter or on 081-302-6598 at any reasonable time, for general adventure help and also for AGT and, to a lesser extent, TADS programming. ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you write to someone for help, please enclose an SAE!! If you're willing to join this list, just let me know, and if you are able to give help by phone, please make it clear what hours you would be willing to accept calls. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ WANTED. Are there any Text Adventurers out there who are stuck in the middle of several games and haven't a clue on how to solve them There must be more than just me who are having this problem. So, if there is anyone who would like to team up with me to help each other solve the games then please get in touch. Please note that it is for TEXT games only as I am Blind and my Speech Synthesiser can only work with those type of games. Here are a few of the games that I am stuck on. T-Zero. Jacaranda Jim. Uunkulian Adventure II. Deep Space Drifter. Hornadette. Magic Mansion. etc, etc, etc. Contact me any evening on 0592 771583, or if you wish, by PC compatible disk of either 3.5 or 5.25. Tom Lorimer, 443 Delgatie Court, Pitteuchar, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 4RW, Scotland. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Several readers are looking for help with the game Exile. If anyone can help with hints or (better!) a solution, can you contact me please? ------------------------------------------------------------------ James Jillians is writing an adventure and would like to ask if anyone knows of a PD program that can play Quartet music (*.4V files) and display a picture at the same time? Again, contact me if you can help. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SynTax Begging Section Solutions and/or maps are urgently needed for various commercial and PD/Shareware games, especially: Adventures Through Time, Another Lifeless Planet, Asteroid Adventure, Awe-Chasm, Battune:Crimefighter, Cadaver:The Pay Off, Captive, Castle of the Alchemists, Castle of Doom, Castle of Hornadette, Catacomb, Corporation, Crime to the Ninth Power, Crown, Deadly Labyrinth, Dead or Alive, Deep Space Drifter, Demoniak, Don't Bank On It, Dunjin, Eaglestar, Elven Crystals II, Escape from Maya's Kingdom, Everyday Adventure, Exile, Fifi's Whorehouse, Flippin' The Lid, Forbidden Quest, Frustration, Fun City Adventure, Grungy Towers, Hassle Court Adventure, Hero Quest (Gremlin), Hugo I (full version), Hugo II, Hugo III, Island of Lost Hope, Island of Nephotons, Isthorn, Journey in the Past, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jubilee Road, Last Half of Darkness, Les Manley:Lost in LA, Lost Soul Adventure, Lost Stone Mansion, Magic Mansion, Maupiti Island, McMurphy's Mansion, Mercy Mission, Mister Scratch, Multi-dimensional Thief, Nebula, Nethack (STAC version), Nirvana, Obscure Naturalist, Ogre, Omnicron Conspiracy, Operation Blue Sunrise, Phantom Zone, Prodigal Son, Public Investigations, Sanity Clause, Seventh Heaven, Sherwood (AGT), Snatch and Crunch, Son of Stagefright, Space Rogue, Suicide or Murder, Time, Treasure of the New Kingdom, T-Zero ... or anything else not covered already in the magazine or listed in the solutions section. * * * @~If you've got a problem, maybe a SynTax reader can help. Just @~send in details and it will be included next issue.