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| Now for Jim Greenwood [D'oh! They spelled my name wrong, dammit!] - he admits
he's not the first to finish Starion
(Melbourne House reckons he's fifteenth
in line) but he's certainly the first to send
us the complete solution. There's no
room for all those anagrams here but it's
a wonder Jim's brain's not scrambled
after sorting them out. Well, don't
Emphysema and Metabasis look more
like anagrams than real words to you?
When it comes to playing the game, Jim's
obviously pretty hot - his high score is
40,225. To boost it this high he
recommends the following tactic - if you
know the zone where your next word
belongs, don't 'go for time warp' or 'fly
to planet' until your oxygen level is low
'cos you can use the time to boost your
score by blasting more aliens.
(Jim Grimwood in Your Spectrum issue 18 , Page 64)
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HAVING trouble working out some of the anagrams and dates in Starion? In sector one, the first anagram is Bible and the date is 1968; the second is EEC in 1957. The next is Diamond and dates from 1897 and lastly, Relativity with a date of 1905. I hope those help you on your way. (Julian Marshall in Sinclair User issue 41 , Page 13) 4070 HAVING trouble working out some of the anagrams and dates in Starion? In sector one, the first anagram is Bible and the date is 1968; the second is EEC in 1957. The next is Diamond and dates from 1897 and lastly, Relativity with a date of 1905. I hope those help you on your way. (Julian Marshall in Sinclair User issue 41 , Page 13) 4071 (These tips were originally printed in issues 17, 19 and 20. Then reproduced in full in issue 27) Just follow these tips to find out the answers for all 200 odd anagrams (except the last one which you should work out for yourselves). BLOCK 1 GRID 1 AD 1858: TELEGRAM - No message for the transatlantic cable AD 1905: RELATIVITY - Einstein's special theory AD 1985: STARION - Be present at your birth AD 1980: RHODESIA - Vanishes into Zimbabwe AD 1893: ASPRIN - Herman Dresser's Headache cure AD 1897: DIAMOND - Vicky's celebration lacks sparkle AD 1957: EEC - Established by the treaty ol Rome AD 1831: ELECTRICITY - Faraday's dynamo output AD 0001: BIBLE - Book for lunar Xmas on Apollo 8 GRID PASSWORD: REDBREAST BLOCK 1 GRID 2 AD 1588: ARMADA - Drake bowls out the Spanish AD 1815: WELLINGTON - Duke gets his feet muddy at Waterloo AD 0814: EGBERT - Name him king of all England AD 1883: KRAKATOA - Big bang breaks Indonesian toe AD 1776: SEAL - Endorse the Declaration of Independence AD 1587: AXE - Get Mary ahead in Liz's chopping basket AD 1764: COAL - What's fuel for James steam engine AD 1086: P REFACE - Begin the Domesday Book AD 1965: LEONOV - Weightless walker GRID PASSWORD: SPACEWALK BLOCK 1 GRID 3 AD 1924: HITLER - Author of Mein Kampf AD 1783: BALLAST - Weigh the first balloon AD 1879: LAMP - Edison said 'Let there be AD 1942: ATOM - Fermi's doing the splits AD 1547: IVAN - The Terrible Czar AD 1982: SPECTRUM - Sinclair's colour baby AD 1901: S - Marconi's signal across the waves AD 1919: TREATY -Agreement in Versailles AD 1889: EIFFEL - He towers over the World Exhibition GRID PASSWORD: ESTABLISH BLOCK 1 GRID 4 AD 1953: EVEREST - Hilary's lost his mountain AD 1789: CAKES - The revolting French are hungry AD 1840: PENNY - Buy the first black stamp AD 1983: AVON - Thrust two without Blake's engine AD 1986: HALLEY - Bill's comet BC 2222: UMBRELLA - Noah's getting wet AD 1888: RUBBER - Erase Dunlop's pneumatic ty re AD 1896: AERIAL - Marconi's washing his radio AD 1565: TOBACCO - John Hawkins is smoking GRID PASSWORD: PARACHUTE BLOCK 1 GRID 5 AD 1885: PETROL - Karl Benz's car wQn't start BC 0219: ALPS - Hannibal's elephants are here AD 0982: ERIC-Red manfindsgreen land AD 2001: ODYSSEY - A space AD 1949: NATO - An organised treaty in the North Atlantic AD 1898: RADIUM - Curried discovery AD 1959: HAWAII - Grass skirts in the fiftieth state BC 0035: ASP - Bites Cleopatra in the milky way AD 1895: GILLETTE - Invents the safety razor GRID PASSWORD: ORPHANAGE BLOCK 1 GRID 6 AD 0079: VESUVIUS - She blows her top over Pompeii BC 0064: NERO - He fiddles while Rome burns AD 1897: ELECTRON - JJ Thompson's single charqe AD 1869: TABLE - Rest for Mendeleyev's periods AD 1867: ALASKA -America's bargain from Russia AD 1944: D - Big Day in Normandy AD 1999: ECLIPSE - Momentary darkness, just, in Cornwall AD 1871: RIBBONS - FA cup is undressed AD 1945: URANIUM - Ingredient of the atom bomb GRID PASSWORD: ADVENTURE BLOCK 1 GRID 7 AD 1773: TEA - Getting thirsty at Boston party AD 1867: NOBEL - Dynamite without ring AD 1756: CALCUTTA - This black hole is in India AD 1851: EXHIBIT - Show off great crystals at the palace AD 1812: CANNON - Overture noise makers AD 1922: INSULIN - Pancreas gives a hope for diabetics BC 0163: ROSETTA - Hieroglyphic stone for Ptolemy V AD 1997: CHINA - Hong Kong takes the slow boat AD 1042: EDWARD - He confesses to being crowned GRID PASSWORD: ECCENTRIC BLOCK 1 GRID 8 AD 1796: NEEDLE - Jenner's cowpox pricker AD 1912: ICEBERG - Titanic needs a target AD 1969: EAGLE - Big bird gives a giant leap for mankind AD 1929: CRASH - Black Tuesday in Wall street AD 1066: ARROW - One in the eye for Harold AD 1953: ORB - The Queen shall have a ball BC 0543: TRIANGLE - Pythagorus has some AD 1492: BAHAMAS - To them he sails the Ocean blue AD 0004: MANGER - What a messiah - no crib fora bed GRID PASSWORD: COMBINATE BLOCK 1 GRID 9 AD 1911: POLE - Amundsen's southern flag holder BC 0044: IDES - Caesar beware the fifteenth of March AD 1805: NELSON - A hardy man dies at Trafalgar AD 1969: BOOM - Concorde goes supersonic AD 1900: HYDROGEN - Zepplin's gas AD 1454: INK - Guttenburg's Bible is too faint AD 1837: MORSE - Dashed clever telegraph man AD 1914: ARCHDUKE - Ferdinand shot dead without his title AD 1682: APPLE - Newton sees the fruits of gravity GRID PASSWORD: AMPHIBIAN BLOCK PASSWORD: AEROSPACE BLOCK 2 GRID 1 AD 1882: SHERLOCK - Detective begins in 'A study in scarlet' AD 1983: YACHT - Australia's has a winged hull AD 1894: ARGON - Rayleigh and Ramsay's inert gas AD 1982: HEART- Barney Clark's is artificial AD 1971: PENCE - Britain's new pennies AD 0570: MECCA - Muhammid's birthplace AD 1880: EXETER - Necktie appears in Oxford college AD 1962: MISSILE - Crisis in Cuba BC 0257: EUREKA - 'I have found it' quoth Archemides GRID PASSWORD: EMPHYSEMA BLOCK 2 GRID 2 AD 1665: RATS - Great plague carriers AD 1666: PUDDING - Sweet lane in the great fire of London AD 1215: SCROLL - Stationery Magna Carta AD 1956: AMPEX - First video recording system AD 1903: ORVILLE - He's right in 'The Flyer' AD 1484: CLAM - From this Botticelli's Venus is born AD 1829: OARS - Help Oxford win the boat race AD 1565: LISA - Leonardo's morning lady AD 1773: IRON - Metal for Coalbrookdale's bridge GRID PASSWORD: ACROPOLIS BLOCK 2 GRID 3 AD 1557: RUDDER - Steer Drake's Golden Hind around the world AD 1961: PIGS - JFK's fiasco in this cuban bay AD 1913: GEIGER - He counts Alpha particles AD 1602: PENDULUM - Galileo's swinger AD 1959: SILICON - Integrated circuit is backwards AD 1876: TELEPHONE - Alexander Graham's has a ring to it AD 1919: AIRSHIP - Transatlantic first AD 1932: NEUTRON - No charge AD 1916: INTERRUPT - Prevent bullet hitting the Baron's propeller GRID PASSWORD: STRAPPING BLOCK 2 GRID 4 AD 0035: KISS - Judas shops Jesus with one AD 1785: EDITOR - 'The Thunderer' needs control AD 1935: RADAR - Palindromic Radio detection and Ranging AD 1596: THERMOMETER - Galilei takes temperature AD 1916: ALCOHOL - Getting prohibitively stopped in America AD 1834: ANODE - Faraday's positive about electrolysis AD 1928: MOUSE - Mickey the rodent is born AD 1933: REICH - Chancellor Hitler proclaims third AD 1853: DICKENS - Carol's Christmas author GRID PASSWORD: TRADEMARK BLOCK 2 GRID 5 AD 1862: LIGHT - Focault can't see its speed AD 1854: CARDIGAN - General wooly charge of the Light Brigade BC 0027: AUGUSTUS - Octavian's new identity AD 1938: BIRO - He makes a point of balls AD 1820: AMPERE - Andre - Marie's current unit AD 1815: LAMP - Davy's minor genius AD 1928: ANTIBIOTIC - Fleming's penicillin is the first AD 1811: AUSTEN - 'Sense and Sensibility' Jane AD 1961: VOSTOK - Gargarin's ship GRID PASSWORD: BALACLAVA BLOCK 2 GRID 6 BC 0300: EUCLID - His space is geometric AD 1888: FILM - Moving pictures are made of this AD 1900: LABOUR - Found working party AD 1981: WEDDING - Royal couple couple AD 1744: ANTHEM - 'God save the King' will become ours AD 0037: NAILS Carpenter's material for suspension AD 1747: KITE - Franklin's flying conductor AD 1948: ORWELL - Big Brother's father AD 1907: SHELL - Royal Dutch hatches GRID PASSWORD: SNOWFLAKE BLOCK 2 GRID 7 AD 1834: ENGINE - Babbage's calculating device AD 1000: ERICSSON - He finds a new land in America BC 0776: ATHLETE - Olympic contestant starts the Greek calendar AD 1590: GALILEI - He dropped his balls off the Tower of Pisa AD 1855: GAS - Fuel for Von Bunsen's device AD 1954: ATOLL - Hydrogen bikini on a coral island AD 1936: GOLDS - Owens gets four in Berlin AD 1963: RUBY - Gem shoots Lee Harvey Oswald AD 1908: T - Ford's Model GRID PASSWORD: AGGREGATE BLOCK 2 GRID 8 AD 1941: JET - Whittle powerlessly AD 1957: SPUTNIK - Orbiting travelling companion AD 1981: SHUTTLE - Reusable rocket from Badminton AD 1896: TORCH - Light the modern Olympics AD 1898: ESCALATOR - Moving stairs in Harrods AD 1944: IMF - Found Money fund in Bretton woods AD 1806: ARC - Triumphant symbol in Paris BC 0417: ELECTRA - Euripedes has a complex AD 1721: MINISTRY - Walpole in his prime GRID PASSWORD: MAJESTIES BLOCK 2 GRID 9 AD 1553: MONARCH- Lady Jane's nine day position AD 1941: OYSTERS - Pearl Harbour's contents AD 1945: UN - Charter signed in San Francisco AD 1926: ICI - Imperial chemical industries AD 1495: PAINT - Material for Da Vinci's last supper AD 1877: MARS - Schiaperelli finds canals here AD 1882: TCHAIKOVSKY - His overture after seventy years AD 1841: RUBBER - Material for good year for Spock AD 1981: PACIFIC-Double Eagle V floats over it GRID PASSWORD: IMPROMPTU BLOCK PASSWORD: METABASIS BLOCK 3 GRID 1 AD 1909: WING - Bleriot puts channel under his AD 1899: ELGAR - He varies an enigma AD 1934: KNIVES - Hitler's long weapons in the night AD 0032: FISH - Five for five thousand AD 1967: OXYGEN - Too much in Apollo fire AD 1977: AMIN - Ugandan mass murder AD 1977: MULL - Winged wine of Kintire AD 1614: ROMEO - Where for art thou BC 0790: REMUS - Romulus' twin GRID PASSWORD: FRAMEWORK BLOCK 3 GRID 2 AD 1954: BANNISTER - Roger, smile upstairs in four minutes AD 1939: RHESUS - Levine and Stetons monkey blood factor AD 1982: HARRIER - 'Counted them all out' from Invincable AD 1948: LP - Goldmark gives forty - five minutes BC 0747: ICARUS - He flies discreetly on melting wings AD 1938: AUSTRIA - Germany's new annexe AD 1926: YOYO - Come - come to Donald Duncan's new toy AD 1855: NIGHTINGALE - Hygenic Lady from Berkley Square to Crimea AD 1959: TARMAC- Surface the M one GRID PASSWORD: LABYRINTH BLOCK 3 GRID 3 AD 1935: MONOPOLY - Exclusive board game is born AD 1948: PROGRAM - Instructions first stored in Manchester mark one AD 1927: SOUND- First thing about the Jazz singer AD 1943: ENIGMA - Colossal code for the first computer AD 1923: AUTOGIRO - Juan de la Cierva's C four flew AD 1976: TROWEL - Help a Viking dig holes in Mars AD 1825: LOCOMOTION - Everybody's doing it with George Stephenson AD 1877: CYLINDER - Edison's sound medium AD 1429: ORLEANS - Joan of Arc's relief GRID PASSWORD: ECTOPLASM BLOCK 3 GRID 4 AD 1947: YEAGER - Chuck Supersonic in Glamerous (sic) Glennis AD 1877: EIGHTS - Dead hot university rowing crews AD 1982: RINK - T and D's stage at Lake Placid AD 1936: TELEVISION - Watch the BBC AD 1953: DNA - Deoxyrybonucleic acid BC 9999: EDEN - Adam and Eve's garden AD 1865: ALICE - She adventures in Wonderland AD 1851: SINGER - Choral first sewing machine AD 1781: YORKTOWN - British surrender the war of independence here GRID PASSWORD: YESTERDAY BLOCK 3 GRID 5 AD 1861: GATLING - Name his machine gun AD 1967: BARNARD - His first change of heat AD 1665: TRIANGLE - Pascal's binomial shape BC 0790: ROMULAS - Twin of Remus in Rome AD 1927: LOUIS - Lindenbergh's Transatlantic saintly spirit AD 1979: IRAN - Khomeini's country AD 1931: EMPIRE-Tallest building in a state BC 2905: MEMPHIS - Capital of Egypt, not Tennesse AD 1909: NORTH - Peary's pole GRID PASSWORD: TREMBLING BLOCK 3 GRID 6 AD 1960: PSYCHO - Hitchcock's madman AD 1942: CASABLANCA - 'Play it again Sam' AD 1929: HOOVER - Damned good President AD 1859: OIL - Crude discovery in Pensylvania AD 1981: HELENS-Saintly mountain erupts AD 1921: ORANGES - Prokofiev loves three AD 1872: STANLEY - Meets 'Doctor Livingstone', I presume AD 1949: COMET- Imploding Jet airliner AD 1972: TERRORIST - Munich spoil sport GRID PASSWORD: HOPSCOTCH BLOCK 3 GRID 7 AD 1901: RAGTIME - Tatty beat in jazz AD 1605: FAWKES - Guy with the gun powder AD 1948: TRANSISTOR - Walter Britain's tiny amplifier AD 1770: EQUATOR - Captain Cook crosses this line to Australia AD 1280: VISA - Marco Polo's credit for entry permit AD 1937: NYLON - Synthetic fibres from New York and London AD 1634: OBERAMMERGAU - Passion plays begin here AD 1928: AMBER - Missing traffic light BC 9999: WHEEL - Fundamental invention GRID PASSWORD: WAVEFRONT BLOCK 3 GRID 8 AD 1839: OPIUM - Indian subject of Anglo- Chinese war AD 1952: MOUSETRAP - Agatha's new play AD 1816: ROSSINI - His barber is in Seville AD 1883: LIBERTY - French statue for America AD 0664: WHITBY - Celtic church vanishes at north coast synod AD 1960: APARTHEID - Cause of the Sharpsville massacre AD 1884: EGG - Faberge lays his first for the Csar AD 1945: NUREMBERG - City of Nazi trials AD 1875: WEBB - Captain swims the channel GRID PASSWORD: LAWNMOWER BLOCK 3 GRID 9 AD 1899: ALPHA - Rutherford's first ray AD 0121: STONE-Build Hadrian's wall AD 1536: MONK - Henry's dissolving victim AD 1714: FARENHEIT - Gabriel's temperature scale AD 1958: NAUTILUS - It's twenty thousand leagues under the sea AD 1859: ORIGIN - Darwin's beginning AD 1885: RABIES - Pasteur fights hydrophobia AD 1926: ROCKET - Goddard's is liquid fuelled AD 1974: TAPE -Watergate recording GRID PASSWORD: TRANSFORM BLOCK PASSWORD: TWELFTHLY FINAL PASSWORD: AEMSTY (that's the anagram you have to work out for yourselves)! (Tim Dawson in Crash Tips Special issue 27 , Page 6) 6025 This is zone 1 block 1 grid 1. The answer to the clue No message for the transatlantic cable' is TELEGRAM and it should be placed in 1858. 'Einstein's special theory' is RELATIVITY and should go in 1905 'Be present at your birth' the answer to this is none other than STARION which should be placed in 1985. 'Vanishes into Zimbabwe' is RHODESIA and that should be placed in 1980. 'Herman Dresser's Headache cure' is ASPRIN, that should go into 1893. 'Vicky's celebration lacks sparkle' the answer to this is DIAMOND and should be placed in 1897. 'Established by the treaty of Rome' was the EEC which happened in 1957. 'Faraday's dynamo output' was ELECTRICITY and it should be placed in 1831. 'Book for lunar xmas on Apollo 8' is the BIBLE and that should be placed in 1. The Zone password is REDBREAST. (Colin Younger in Crash issue 17 , Page 72) 7789 | ||||
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(Chris Wood in Your Spectrum issue 15 , Page 39)
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10 REM STARION INFINITE LIVES ETC. v2
(Chris Wood in Your Spectrum issue 15 , Page 39)
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We've seen two versions of Starion, so to be on the safe side, here's two loaders in one. First type it in without line 110 and try it. If your version crashes, replace line 100 with line 110 and the universe is yours! (Chris Wood in Your Spectrum issue 15 , Page 39) 1612 Good timing - the great article on Starion arrived just after I forked out on the game. It's a pity that Chris Wood's POKE for infinite hulls isn't what it first appears to be. I found that after a while my ship was being destroyed by some unknown alien force, even though the temperature wasn't getting too high and the oxygen and hydrox didn't run out. So, remembering all that Terry Bulfib said in YS 10 and 11 about hacking, I wipped out my machine code monitor and got cracking. After several hours and many unsuccessful attempts (made more tricky 'cos my monitor uses some of the memory used by Starion), I finally came up with my own hacking program. It includes Chris's POKEs but also NOPs out the code that reduced the number of hulls by one each time you lose a life. The program works for versions of Starion that use line 110 in Chris's program.
10 REM STARION LIVES ETC, version 4
Finally, I feel a creep comin' on. (Ugh, get him off me! Ed) Thanks for a great mag and keep up the good work. GA Smith Seaford, East Sussex (G A Smith in Your Spectrum issue 18 , Page 64) 1667 There's two versions of Starion, and no easy way of telling them apart, so to be on the safe side, here's two loaders in one. First type it in without line 110 and try it. If your version crashes then replace line 100 with line 110 - the universe is yours. 10 FOR N=65450 TO 65480: READ A: POKE N,A: NEXT N: PRINT AT 10,10; "LOADING" 20 RANDOMIZE USR 65450 100 DATA 49,0,0,221,33,0,64,17,170,191,62,255,55,205,86,5,175,50,21, 179,50,235,177,62,201,50,107,178,195,67,128 110 DATA 49,0,0,221,33,0,64,17,170,191,62,255,55,205,86,5,175,50,100, 179,50,7,178,62,201,50,107,178,195,67,128 Download this type-in hack in TAP format HERE (YS Smash Tips , Page 49) 3873 | ||||
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| Click HERE to download a recording of this game being completed, viewable on an RZX-capable emulator. Courtesy of the RZX Archive. (Daren on the RZX Archive) 11794 |
Brought to you courtesy of Gerard Sweeney and Nick Humphries
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