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+6, SQ 1+2+3+4+5, 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, Sam and Max, Star Trek Judgement Rites, Dragonsphere 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, Eric the Unready. RPGs - Lands of Lore John Wildey Tel 071-498-8075 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. 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, WYSIWYG, Jinxter, Lost in Space RPGs - Bloodwych, Dungeon Master, Ishar 2 Graphical - Lure of the Temptress, Another World, Operation Stealth, Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2, Beneath a Steel Sky Strategy - Deuteros, Powermonger, Populous II (tips and cheats for those two), Utopia, Chaos, Caesar, Civilization 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. Please send sufficient postage for James to return your disk for these offers. John Moore Tel 0785-51390 can offer hints on Eternam, SQ5, Sam and Max, Beneath a Steel Sky, Hand of Fate, Alone In The Dark 2 and Innocent Until Caught, plus many other games including a lot of the older games. Please ring between 17:30 - 23:00 any night except Monday. 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 E-Mail hiom on grue@prism.u-net.com. Philip Richmond, 66 Staining Road, Blackpool, Lancs, FY3 0AD is willing to offer help/advice with Amiga CAT adventure coding. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SynTax Begging Section Solutions and/or maps are urgently needed for various commercial and PD/Shareware games. If you can only partially complete a game, send in as far as you can get and maybe if we all have a go together, someone will be able to finish it. The first person to send a full solution for publication for any adventure/RPG etc which is NOT listed in the 'Solutions' section can have three titles from the SynTax library or one commercial program from the list which follows which includes adventures, RPGs, arcade games and utilities. Contact me if you need to check machine specifications for any program, or just want more details. PC CD-ROM (Sim/Strategy): The MicropProse Collection (Midwinter + Gunship), The MicroProse Collection (RedStorm Rising + Carrier Command) (Arcade): Motor Stars (with model car kit) (Utilities): Plan It Adrenaline PC 3.5" (RPGs): Eye of the Beholder (Sport): Empire Soccer 94, Jack Nicklaus Golf and Course Design, Jack Nicklaus Course Disk II, NFL Pro League Football, PGA Tour Golf, PGA Tour Golf Course Disk (needs PGA Tour Golf), The Games Winter Callenge, World Tennis Championships (Sim/Strategy): Advanced Destroyer Simulator, Combat Classics (F-15, Team Yankee and 688 Attack Sub), Kingmaker, Paragliding Simulation, Rampart, Sherman M4, Tank, UMS II, UMS II Planet Editor (Needs UMS II) (Educational): History in Motion, Mario Teaches Typing (Arcade): Armor Alley, ATF II, Disc, D/Generation, Lightspeed, Magic Boy, Pop Up, Rotox, Steve McQueen Westphaser, Supaplex (Utilities): HP New Wave for Windows PC 5.25" (RPGs): Circuit's Edge, Eye of the Beholder II, Pool of Radiance (Arcade): Finale, No Exit, P47 Thunderbolt, Paris Dakar (Sport): Jack Nicklaus Course Disk 1, Tackle World Class Soccer, Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball, World Championship Soccer (Sim/Strategy): Centurion Defender of Rome, UMS II PC both formats (Adventures): Deadline, Sorcerer (Sim/Strategy): Aircraft and Adventure Factory ST (Adventures): 221B Baker Street, ChronoQuest II, Codename Iceman, Dragon's Breath, Demon's Tomb, Future Wars, The Grail, Golden Path, Gold Rush, Hunt for Red October, King's Quest III, Leisure Suit Larry II, Manhunter 2: San Francisco, Mercenary Compendium Edition, Police Quest II, Talespin + Deltronics Fantasy Graphics Disk, Tass Times in Tone Town, Time, Uninvited (RPGs): Bloodwych, Galdregon's Domain, Phantasie III, Times of Lore, Ultima II (Sim/Strategy): F-15 Strike Eagle II, Gold of the Americas, Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, Reach for the Skies, Red Storm Rising, Powermonger, Silent Service II, UMS II (Sport): International Soccer Challenge, Rugby Coach (Utilities): 220-ST, Colourspace, Digi Drum + sample disk, Easy Calc, Key Master, Ruby View, STOS, STuff, Super Conductor, Super Directory (Arcade): Airball + Airball Construction Kit, Anarchy, Continental Circus, Fists of Fury compilation, Gold Runner, Hard Drivin', Jupiter Probe, Lombard RAC Rally, Magic Fly, Major Motion, Simulcra, Sky Fox, Spellbound, Super Off Road, Test Drive, Thunder Blade, Trivial Pursuit Amiga (Adventures): Corruption (RPGs): Breach 2 (Sims/Strategy): Conflict, Fighter Command, Populous World Editor (needs Populous), Red Baron, Tornado (Sport): John Madden American Football, MicroProse Golf, PGA Tour Golf Course Disk (needs PGA Tour Golf) (Educational): Adventures in Maths, Kids Type, Weather Watcher (War Games): Frontline (Arcade): Barbarian 2: Lords of War, Myth ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~If you've got a problem, maybe a SynTax reader can help. 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