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. Andrew Wielochowski, Haulfryn, Cilycwm, Carms, WALES SA20 0SP. 01550 721319 : Weekdays - 6pm to 8pm, Weekends - 5pm to 9pm Andrew can help with the following games:- Myst, Space Quest 4, Discworld, Prince of Persia (cheats and tips) and Jacaranda Jim, Black Cauldron, Dalek Attack and many other boring games!!! Chris Munford can help with Azrael's Tear - Tel 01952 433182. Rusty will help with general and computer queries. You can email him at idowling@netserve.net.au Paul Hardy, 68 Wales Road, Kiveton Park, Sheffield S26 6RD can help with the following Amiga RPGs and adventures: BattleTech:The Cresent Hawk's Inception, Beyond Zork, Champions of Krynn, Deathknights of Krynn, Dungeon Master, Dungeon Quest, Elite (5 missions finished, Elite status), Enchanter, Escape from Singe's Castle, Eye of the Beholder, Eye of the Beholder II, Fish, Gnome Ranger (Part 1), Indy:The Last Crusade (adventure), Ingrid's Back (all 3 parts), Joan of Arc, Journey, Knight Orc (Part 1), Lancelot (Part 1), Legend of Faerghail, Lords of the Rising Sun, Lords of Time, Maniac Mansion, Millenium 2.2, Myth (Magnetic Scrolls), Operation Stealth, Planetfall, Pool of Radiance, Red Moon, Secret of Monkey Island, Secret of the Silver Blades, Thunderbirds (Mission 1), War in Middle Earth, Wishbringer, Zork 1 Stefan Herber ( StefanHer@aol.com ) is happy to answer any queries about the Might and Magic series and also has a vast collection of walkthrus, either personally drawn up or taken from mags/the Net. You can also contact me by letter or on 0181-302-6598 at any reasonable time or at sue_medley@msn.com for general adventure help and also for AGT and 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ From David Froude, 100 Gaston Way, Shepperton, Middlesex TW17 8EY I have the floppy disk version of Police Quest 4 - Open Season and on Startup/Disk 1 a file is corrupted. I have managed to load it in and use it in DOS mode (where it is a little temperamental) but I cannot use it in Windows due to missing file data. The corrupted file, which I managed to partially repair, is in Directory 'BOTH' and the file is RESOURCE.000. What I need is a copy of the file. Can anyone help? ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- From Dorothy Millard - e-mail dddmillard@hotmail.com or via SynTax: Can you please put out a plea for help with an Amiga game ISLAND OF NEPHOTON. I need a four digit code to complete the game. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven House, 1 Union Lane, Penrith CA11 9DU is looking for copies Caesar II, Rygar, Panzer general, Bard's Tale 2, Bard's Tale 3, Myst, Legends of Valour and The Great Battles of Alexander for the PC. Please contact him if you can help. ------------------------------------------------------------------ John Moore aka Arnie has Broken Sword 2:The Smoking Mirror for sale at œ26. If interested, ring him on 01785-600501 or email JOHNJOMOORE@msn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- I have Toonstruck (CD) for sale at œ10 and Might and Magic IV:Clouds of Xeen (3.5") for œ7. Contact me on 0181 302 6598 or email sue_medley@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! ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~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 ----- All gone for the moment! ------------------------------------------------------------------ PC CD-ROM --------- (Utilities): Plan It Adrenaline ------------------------------------------------------------------ PC 3.5" ------- (Sport): Jack Nicklaus Course Disk II (needs JN Golf), PGA Tour Golf Course Disk (needs PGA Tour Golf), The Games Winter Callenge (Adventures): The Adventures of Willy Beamish (Sim/Strategy): Midwinter, Paragliding Simulation, Sherman M4, Tank, UMS II Planet Editor (Needs UMS II) (Arcade): ATF II, Rotox (Utilities): HP New Wave for Windows PC 5.25" -------- (Sport): Jack Nicklaus Course Disk 1, Tackle World Class Soccer, Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball, World Championship Soccer (Arcade): P47 Thunderbolt (Sim/Strategy): Centurion Defender of Rome PC both formats --------------- (Sim/Strategy): Aircraft and Adventure Factory ------------------------------------------------------------------ ST -- (RPGs): Phantasie III, Times of Lore (Adventures): ChronoQuest II, Dragon's Breath, Future Wars, The Grail, Golden Path, King's Quest III, King's Quest IV, Knight Orc, Deltronics Fantasy Graphics Disk, Time (Sim/Strategy): Reach for the Skies (Arcade): Airball Construction Kit, Lombard RAC Rally, Major Motion, Sky Fox (Utilities): Key Master, STuff ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 -