Help Offered and Wanted / Sales, Wants and Swaps ------------------------------------------------ Help Offered 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. MerC Tel: 01424-434214 any reasonable time. 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, Pyramid of Peril Graphical - Lure of the Temptress, Another World, Operation Stealth, Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2, Beneath a Steel Sky, Simon the Sorcerer, Larry 2 RPGs - Bloodwych, Dungeon Master, Ishar 2, Ancients 1 : Death Watch, Betrayal at Krondor Strategy - Deuteros, Powermonger, Populous II (tips and cheats for those two), Utopia, Chaos, Caesar, Civilization Other - Hysula, The Maze, Doom, Doom 2 Technical - can give help on PC upgrades and general advice, such as on the workings of the PC 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 01785-600501 can offer hints on Space Quest 6, Guilty and The Dig plus many other games including a lot of the older games. Please ring between 17:30 - 23:00 any night or email him on JOHNJOMOORE@msn.com 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 with TADS programming. 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 Darkside_of_the_Moon@msn.com. is willing to help with advice on Windows 95 or MSN. Adrian M Sill, 19 Sherwood Drive, Five Lane Ends, Skellow, Doncaster DN6 8NY, Tel: 01302 721937 e-mail adrians@wrox.com. Contact Adrian for general adventure programming and design help. He doesn't like game creators and works in languages like BASIC, C, Delphi, ASM and VB. If anyone has problems, ideas, questions or suggestions about programming adventures (of any type at all) then maybe he can help. Chris Munford can help with Azrael's Tear - Tel 01952 433182. 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 follows: Help Wanted ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joy Birley Tel: 01766 522241 writes for help with Myst. She says: I have bought a copy of Myst but am at a total standstill in it. Unfortunately I have very wobbly hands and cannot control the mouse finely enough to operate the organ controls. I have been off work with a bad back for a month now so have had ample time to try, try and try again. I have even tried altering the mouse sensitivity level in Control Panel but it doesn't help. So I wondered if someone who has completed the game but not yet deleted it from their hard disk would be kind enough to copy a saved position onto disk for me. I really don't know which is worse - not having a clue what to do, or knowing exactly what you want to do and not being able to do it. @~I'd say the latter. I just couldn't climb the whale's tongue in @~KQ4 and got very frustrated with Rosella each time she slid back @~down. Richard kindly got me past that point when I posted him my @~save disk. I hope someone can help you in a similar way ... Sue @~SynTax Begging Section follows 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 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 Jumanji - Todd Strasser The Lightless Dome - Douglas Hill ------------------------------------------------------------------ PC CD-ROM --------- (Sim/Strategy): The MicropProse Collection (Midwinter + Gunship), The MicroProse Collection (RedStorm Rising + Carrier Command) (Educational): Behind the Scenes:The Zoo, CNN Newsroom Global View, London:The Multimedia Tour, Mammals: Monkeybars for Windows (age 4-7), Wallobee Jack (age 4 up), Wonderland (age 3-6) (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, 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 both formats --------------- (Sim/Strategy): Aircraft and Adventure Factory PC 5.25" -------- (RPG): Ultima Trilogy 1 (I, II and III) (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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ST -- (RPGs): Phantasie III, Times of Lore (Sport): International Soccer Challenge, Rugby Coach (Adventures): ChronoQuest II, Dragon's Breath, Future Wars, The Grail, Golden Path, Gold Rush, Hunt for Red October, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, King's Quest III, Knight Orc, Talespin + Deltronics Fantasy Graphics Disk, Time (Sim/Strategy): F-15 Strike Eagle II, Gold of the Americas, Pirates, Reach for the Skies, Red Storm Rising, Powermonger, Silent Service II (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, Test Drive, Thunder Blade, Trivial Pursuit (Utilities): 220-ST, Colourspace, Digi Drum + sample disk, Easy Calc, Key Master, Ruby View, STOS, STuff, Super Conductor, Super Directory ------------------------------------------------------------------ Amiga ----- (Sims/Strategy): Populous World Editor (needs Populous), Red Baron, Tornado (Sport): John Madden American Football, PGA Tour Golf Course Disk (needs PGA Tour Golf) (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. @~Sales, Wants and Swaps follow Sales, Wants and Swaps ---------------------- Ads are run for ONE issue only, at no charge. If you want an ad repeated, please let me know as soon as possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Laurence Creighton emailed me from sunny South Africa on behalf of a friend in Sydney Australia who has a PC, but has recently exhumed his old Spectrum QL. He phoned Laurence asking me if he knew where he could get Microdrive cartridges. Like me, Laurence doesn't know the QL too well, but he gathers that the computer HAS the device attached - all he is looking for are the cartridges. This chap is prepared to buy these cartridges from anyone who wants to get rid of theirs, and the seller can take it from there. The details are: David Purchase 157 Sydenham Road Marrickville N.S.W. 2204 Australia EMail:- Purchd@iaccess.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------ PC Spectrum Emulation Games Fourth Protocol (with codes for second & third parts) Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy 1 + 2 Lords of Midnight / Doomdark's Revenge Automania / Pyjamara / Herbert's Dummy Run / Everyone's a Wally / Three Weeks in Paradise Bak 2 Skool / Skool Daze / Contact Sam Cruise A Day in the Life Dennis Through the Drinking Glass Plus any Spectrum adventures Contact Steven House, 1 Union Lane, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 9DU ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sharon Lowndes is looking for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective for the PC. If you have a copy for sale please contact her on 01962 773203. ------------------------------------------------------------------ For Sale or Swap Toonstruck Shannara Offers or swaps to Arnie aka John Moore on 01785 600501 or email johnjomoore@msn.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~If you have software or hardware to sell or are searching for an @~elusive piece of software and you want an ad included in the @~next issue of SynTax, just let me know. There's no charge to @~individuals. Please, no pirated software! - o -