Help Offered Marion Taylor, 504 Ben Jonson House, Barbican, London EC2Y 8NH. MerC Tel: 01424-434214 any reasonable time. John Barnsley, 32 Merrivale Road, Rising Book, Stafford ST17 9EB Tel: 01785 244227 any reasonable time. Steve McLaren Tel: 01843-299819 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. RPGs - Lands of Lore. Text/Graphics - 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, Gateway, Gateway 2, Death Gate. John Wildey Tel 0171-498-8075 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: 01622 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, Obscure Naturalist RPGs - Bloodwych, Dungeon Master, Ishar 2, Ancients 1 : Death Watch, Betrayal at Krondor Graphical - Lure of the Temptress, Another World, Operation Stealth, Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2, Beneath a Steel Sky, Simon the Sorcerer, Larry 2 Strategy - Deuteros, Powermonger, Populous II (tips and cheats for those two), Utopia, Chaos, Caesar, Civilization Other - Hysula, The Maze Technical - can give help on PC upgrades and general advice, such as on the workings of the PC Still 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 01785-251390 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 01695 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 him 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. Alex van Kaam, Haydnstraat 18, 5751 ES Deurne, The Netherlands, e-mail borimir@msn.com, is willing to help with advice on Windows 95 or MSN. You can also contact me by letter or on 0181-302-6598 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Help Wanted ------------------------------------------------------------------ Can anyone out there help me with Menzoberranzan? asks reader Chris Munford. My hard drive went down. The new one I have just got, but I lost all my save games. So it will have to be played from new. Is there anyone with a save disk which might help me? I was just about to get to the fountain, when the hard drive went down. If you can help Chris, write to 8 Bath Road, Ironridge, Shropshire TF8 7AY. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Neil Shipman wants to know if anyone else is playing The Sound of One Hand Clapping. If you are, please contact him at 12 Friary Grange Park, Winterbourne, Bristol, BS17 1LZ. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Help wanted by Theo Clarke in GC : A Thrashing Party of the Mind How do I take Shroedinger's Cat? I guess that I need this to counter Heisenberg's Mouse, which destroys the cheez key whenever I try to open the cheez door. How do I open Zeno's bottle of milk? If you can help, contact Theo at 98 Choumert Road, London SE15 4AX Theo is also looking for help for Curses; see the file in the Hints section. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Stuck in a game? Even if the solution isn't in the list, maybe someone can help. Just send in your problem and I'll display it here. Technical queries covered too! ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 or one book. Contact me if you need to check machine specifications for any program, or just want more details. If you want to buy any of the games or books, make me an offer! BOOKS ----- (Fantasy): The Tangle Box - Terry Brooks Runespear - Victor Milan and Melinda Snodgrass The Book of Mordred - Peter Hanratty ------------------------------------------------------------------ PC CD-ROM --------- (Sim/Strategy): The MicropProse Collection (Midwinter + Gunship), The MicroProse Collection (RedStorm Rising + Carrier Command) (Educational): Kid's Zoo (age 3-12) (Arcade): Motor Stars (with model car kit) (Utilities): Plan It Adrenaline ------------------------------------------------------------------ PC 3.5" ------- (Sport): Jack Nicklaus Course Disk II (needs JN Golf), NFL Pro League Football, 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), Midwinter, Paragliding Simulation, Rampart, Sherman M4, Tank, UMS II, UMS II Planet Editor (Needs UMS II) (Arcade): Armor Alley, ATF II, Disc, D/Generation, Lightspeed, Pop Up, Rotox, Steve McQueen Westphaser, Supaplex (Puzzles): Are We There Yet? (Utilities): HP New Wave for Windows (Educational): History in Motion, Mario Teaches Typing PC 5.25" -------- (Sport): Jack Nicklaus Course Disk 1, Tackle World Class Soccer, Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball, World Championship Soccer (Arcade): Finale, Magic Boy, No Exit, P47 Thunderbolt, Paris Dakar (Sim/Strategy): Centurion Defender of Rome, UMS II PC both formats --------------- (Adventures): Sorcerer (Sim/Strategy): Aircraft and Adventure Factory ------------------------------------------------------------------ ST -- (RPGs): Bloodwych, Galdregon's Domain, Phantasie III, Times of Lore (Sport): International Soccer Challenge, Rugby Coach (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, Mercenary Compendium Edition, Talespin + Deltronics Fantasy Graphics Disk, Time (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 (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, Deja Vu (RPGs): Faery Tale Adventure (Sims/Strategy): 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 (Arcade): Barbarian 2: Lords of War, Myth ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~If you've got a problem, maybe a SynTax reader can help. Just @~send in details and it will be included next issue. - o -