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! Or if you've got a problem, maybe a SynTax reader can help. Just send in details and it will be included next issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Teague asks: I recently purchased Cannon Fodder and Beneath a Steel Sky as a double-pack in a bargain bin. Anyway, my problem is that I can run Steel Sky, but I can't get the sound to work. And, as for Cannon Fodder, it just says "soundblaster initialisation error". I even tried making a separate boot disk, but too no avail. I'm now stumped! My comp system is a P150 with 16meg of ram, a soundblaster card and W95. @~You can contact Christopher at CTeague6@aol.com or by writing in @~to SynTax. @~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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mary Scott-Parker would like to buy Captive on the Amiga. If you can help, please give her a call on 016974 72253 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I have bought a copy of Sierra's Manhunter New York for the Atari ST at a computer fair in Stafford in April. There are 5 disks but disk 1 has been formatted. If somebody can help me I will send them the original disk. E-Mail me at: markmcdermott1@compuserve.com @~If you haven't got email, you can always contact me and I'll @~pass any info on to Mark ... Sue ------------------------------------------------------------------ For Sale No longer needed games for .... say a quid to cover postage and a couple of Mars bars? - or other generous offers. All 3.5" disk unless shown otherwise, boxed, with manuals all and necessary bits. Ascendancy (CD-ROM) - Captive and map disk - Utopia - A-Train - Premier Manager - Nigel Mansell's World Championship - Hexx 688 Attack Sub - Grand Prix Manager (CD-ROM) - Lands of Lore - Ultima VI - SimEarth and book - Frontier: First Encounter - Megatraveller I - UFO Enemy Unknown - Road and Track - Reunion - Mario Andretti's Racing Challenge - Wizardry VII - Midwinter - Bard's Tale Construction Set - Harpoon - Indianapolis 500 - Team Suzuki - Carrier Command - North and South - B.A.T. Wanted - Eye of the Beholder 1, 2 and 3, preferably the CD-ROM compilation, but not fussed Ravenloft - Strahd's Possession Millenium 2.2 [ST or PC] Elder Scrolls - The Arena and Daggerfall Might and Magic IV and V David Wagner (01202) 316052 or 26 Rushton Crescent, Bournemouth, BH3 7AF ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~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! @~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 --------- (Adventures): The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Simon the Sorcerer 2 (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" ------- (Adventures): The Adventures of Willy Beamish (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?, Castle of Dr Brain (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, King's Quest IV, 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 - o -