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TITLE

Starion



PLATFORM

zx48



PUBLISHER

Melbourne House



AUTHOR

David M Webb



YEAR

1985



CATEGORIES

arcade shoot-em-up puzzle



ENTRY BY

Jim Grimwood <jimg@globalnet.co.uk>



CONTROLS

Joystick or Keyboard



Bank left      I    Accelerate    E

Bank right     P    Decelerate    Q

Dive           W    Fire laser    N

Climb          C

Sights toggle  T    Sound toggle  S

Print screen   Z    Pause         H

Status         R    Abandon game  CAPS+SPACE

>END Controls



INSTRUCTIONS



SCENARIO

The year is 2010 and your name is Starion. Fresh out of Space Academy, you have

been selected as their brightest pupil to pilot the world's first timeship, the

S.S. Stardate. Your mission: to boldly go back in time and correct the

devastation wrought in the Space-Time continuum by evil aliens from all the

other worlds that have achieved time travel before you.

As you progress through the game, your ability as a pilot increases. You are

rewarded with promotion through the ranks from Novice to Supreme Commander. If

and when you finally reach 'Event Zero' before the beginning of time (event

one), then you become the earliest thing to exist and must by default assume the

ultimate title of CREATOR of all that follows.



THE NATURE OF SPACE-TIME

The space-time continuum is constructed of 3 'time blocks' and each time block

is a 3x3 array of 'time grids'. Each time grid is a 3x3 arrangement of time

zones. Taking into account the 3 dimensions of space itself, there are thus 243

time zones in 8 dimensions.

Each time zone represents the state of the observable universe during a given

year in Earth history. The timetravelling aliens have wrought havoc on your past

by removing items of historical significance from their correct time zone to one

of the eight neighbouring time-zones in the local time grid, by means of their

heavily-armed timeships.



THIS IS WHAT YOU DO

To save the universe from chaotic collapse you must proceed as follows ...

Engage and destroy the enemy ship in your time zone by space to space combat.

The dead alien's cargo will materialise in the form of an alphabetical letter.

Collect this letter by coming to a complete halt in its centre. It will be

stowed in your hold and attacks will continue until you have destroyed the enemy

fleet and collected all the letters.

The on-ship computer will now ask you to unscramble the letters to identify the

original cargo dislodged in time by the enemy. Having done this, you must locate

the entrance to a time warp and fly into it. The time-grid will be displayed.

Now decide which of the eight neighbouring time zones is the year in which your

cargo belongs.

The jump is made and you appear in a new time-zone. Your first task is to land

on earth (fly straight into it) and see if your cargo will solve the historical

problem. If you have the correct cargo, then it will be ejected, your oxygen and

fuel will be replenished and you may do battle with a new breed of enemy for the

next item.

If you have jumped to the wrong time zone, then you will still have to destroy

enough ships, mines and enemy missiles to liberate sufficient energy to create a

new time warp, but no enemy cargo will appear. Only then will you be able to

escape, still carrying the same cargo.

Once you have corrected history in all nine zones in the time-grid, the time

warp formed after the next battle will take you to one of the eight neighbouring

time-grids in the current time-block. You must take the first letter of each of

the nine items you have moved and unscramble THESE to form a password, which,

when entered into the flight computer will convince it that you are capable of

inter-grid time travel.

Having completed all nine time-grids in the current block, you must unscramble

the initial letters of the nine grid passwords to form the password for

inter-block time travel down the next time warp. At this stage just one third

of history has been corrected.

When all three time blocks (and hence all 27 time-grids and all 243 time

zones) have been corrected, you will have three inter-block passwords. Take the

first and last letters of each, unscramble them, and you will have the six

letter master password which will permit exit from the space-time continuum.

You will then yourself become event zero, and have achieved the title of:



                               CREATOR



RANKINGS

Your achievements for mankind are rewarded with ascending rank as follows:



  ACHIEVEMENTS:                    RANK:



  None                             Novice

  One complete time zone           Chronotourist

  Line of 3 time zones             Trizoner

  One complete time-grid           Grid Master

  Line of 3 time grids             Triple Grid Master

  One complete time block          Space Admiral

  Two complete blocks              Supreme Commander

  Three blocks and Event Zero      CREATOR



INSTRUMENTS

Looking from left to right at your instrument panel, you will see: the

speedometer, measuring the magnitude of your velocity. Next, the hull

thermometer. This registers higher at high speeds, and the hull is also heated

by excessive laser fire.

Next there is a display of the letters in your cargo hold, followed by the

essential biplanar scanners, which provide all-round detection.

The first (X-Z) scanner gives a view around you in the horizontal plane in which

you are flying. You are in the centre and flying 'up' the screen, so an enemy a

long way to your left and behind would be in the bottom-left corner of the

display.

The second (Y-Z) scanner lets you know how far above or below you the enemy is,

by providing a view around you in the vertical plane, in which you are flying at

centre towards the right. Thus an enemy ahead and above would be towards the

top-right corner of the scanner.

Enemies are indicated by plus (+) signs, their missiles and mines by dots (.),

while everything else is indicated with minus(-)signs. With practice you will

become skilful enough to locate anything anywhere in 3-D space just by glancing

at the scanners.

Adjacent to the scanners you will see a set of pitch/yaw/roll indicators, and

above them a calendar giving the year of the current time-zone. The final two

gauges give your fuel (hydrox) and oxygen levels, and below them you will find

a display of the remaining hulls on your ship.

Your ship is a multi-hulled vessel, and impacts with mines, rocks and missiles

will increase the outer hull temperature. The more potent weapons will destroy

a hull completely.



PLAYING TIPS

As with most arcade games, your ability to control the S.S. Stardate, your

combat skills, and your sense of position will improve with practice.

Rocks, binary rocks and other space debris will not be destroyed by laser fire,

so you must avoid them.

As your historical knowledge grows, you will soon be able to take the fastest

route around each time-grid, in nine steps, thereby gaining points for conserved

fuel and oxygen. You will also gain points for destroying enemy ships, mines and

missiles.



HINTS/CHEATS

To incorporate the pokes below, type in the short program and SAVE it before you

RUN it, then rewind your Starion tape. Load that as normal until after the

second short block - there is a small bit of BASIC followed by some code. When

it's in, stop the tape, take it out, reset your Speccy, and then type in LOAD

and RUN the program below. When it prints up ""LOADING" replace the Starion tape

and the remainder will load and run but this time you'll have the thickest ship

in the Galaxy.



HACK 1

 10 REM STARION INFINITE LIVES, OXYGEN, HYDROX. v2

 20 FOR n=65450 TO 65480: READ a: POKE n,a: NEXT n: PRINT AT 10,10;"LOADING"

 40 RANDOMIZE USR 65450</CODE></PRE>

-either-

 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</PRE>

-or-

 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</PRE>



If your version crashes using line 100 above then replace it with line 110.

Your Spectrum 15 (Jun.1985) p.39 (C. Wood)



HACK 2

This hack is an enhancement to the previous one, which stops a hull being lost

each time a life is lost.



 10 REM STARION LIVES, ETC. v4

 20 FOR n=65450 TO 65498: READ a: POKE n,a: NEXT n: PRINT AT 10,10;"LOADING"

 30 RANDOMIZE USR 65450

 40 DATA 49,0,0,221,33,0,64,17,170,191,62,255,55,205,86,5,175,50,6,182,50,7,182,

    50,8,182,50,9,182,50,10,182,50,11,182,50,100,179,50,7,178,62,201,50,107,178,

    195,67,128



Your Spectrum 18 (Sep.1985) p.15 (G.A. Smith)



REVIEWS

"Starion can be viewed as either a light educational adventure in time or purely

as an arcade game. Whatever view, it's well worth buying, if only for the

pleasure of turning history upside down." (Rating 4/5 stars)

Sinclair User 39 (Jun.1985) p.22 (Clare Edgeley)



INFORMATION

The original release of the game was impossible to complete. You were supposed

to be able to refuel your ship by either:

a) landing on a planet; or

b) reaching a sufficiently high score to get a new ship.

Option a) didn't work, and option b) was impossibly high - so you couldn't make

much progress.

A subsequent release fixed these bugs but left in another one which wouldn't be

found until right near the end, as one of the anagram solutions used 12 letters

(OBERAMMERGAU), one more than the maximum the program could handle, so it

crashed when it was entered. Melbourne House provided a patch to fix that. This 

patch is only useful with the final release of the game (after the other bugs

had been fixed).



STARION FIX

 10  CLEAR 65471

 20  LET BASE=65472

 30  LET CHK=0

 40  FOR A=0 TO 51

 50  READ B

 60  POKE BASE+A,B

 70  LET CHK=CHK+B

 80  NEXT A

 90  IF CHK <> 5408 THEN PRINT "DATA WRONG. CHECK LINES 130-200": STOP

100  PRINT "PLAY STARION TAPE FROM START"

110  LOAD "" CODE

120  RANDOMIZE USR BASE

125  REM

130  DATA 221,33,0,64,17,208,191

140  DATA 62,255,55,49,0,0,205

150  DATA 86,5,33,47,169,52,17

160  DATA 54,169,33,233,255,1,5

170  DATA 0,237,176,14,6,17,79

180  DATA 200,237,176,195,67,128

190  DATA 200,65,195,79,200,54

200  DATA 61,35,16,251,201



Now type RUN. If you get a "DATA WRONG" message then check the numbers in lines

130-200 until they are correct. Otherwise you will be asked to put the Starion

tape in your player and play it as normal. The game will then be loaded and

altered, ready to play.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Starion was the result of over nine months of intensive part-time programming by

David Webb, a nineteen year-old undergraduate in Mathematics at Exeter College,

Oxford. He is also the author of two books on the ZX Spectrum; "Supercharge Your

Spectrum", a collection of machine language routines for basic programmers, and

"Advanced Spectrum Machine Language", for experienced machine language

programmers. Both were published by Melbourne House.



SOLUTION

Compiled during gameplay by Jim Grimwood @ Dead Dog Farm

Numbered arrow at right indicates next zone to solve in sequence



BLOCK 1 : GRID 1

 ZONE

 1 1858AD  No message for the trans-Atlantic cable  BIBLE        >9

 2 1905AD  Einstein's special theory                RHODESIA     >4

 3 1985AD  Be present at your birth                 ASPIRIN      >5

 4 1980AD  Vanishes into Zimbabwe                   ELECTRICITY  >8

 5 1893AD  Herman Dreser's headache cure            TELEGRAM     >1

 6 1897AD  Vicky's celebration lacks sparkle        RELATIVITY   >2

 7 1957AD  Established by the Treaty of Rome        DIAMOND      >6

 8 1831AD  Faraday's dynamo output                  STARION      >3

 9 1968AD  Book for Lunar Xmas in Apollo 8          EEC          >7

 Grid Password - REDBREAST



BLOCK 1 : GRID 2

 ZONE

 1 1815AD  Duke gets his feet muddy at Waterloo     COAL         >7

 2  814AD  Name him king of all England             WELLINGTON   >1

 3 1883AD  Big bang breaks Indonesian toe           PREFACE      >8

 4 1776AD  Endorse the Declaration of Independence  EGBERT       >2

 5 1588AD  Drake bowls out the Spanish              AXE          >6

 6 1587AD  Get Mary ahead in Liz's chopping basket  SEAL         >4

 7 1764AD  What's fuel for James' steam engine      KRAKATOA     >3

 8 1086AD  Begin the Domesday book                  LEONOV       >9

 9 1965AD  Weightless walker                        ARMADA       >5

 Grid Password - SPACEWALK



BLOCK 1 : GRID 3

 ZONE

 1 1924AD  Author of 'Mein Kampf'                   TREATY       >8

 2 1783AD  Weigh the first balloon                  S            >7

 3 1879AD  And Edison said "Let there be light"     EIFFEL       >9

 4 1942AD  Fermi's doing the splits                 SPECTRUM     >6

 5 1547AD  The terrible Tsar                        BALLAST      >2

 6 1982AD  Sinclair's colour baby                   IVAN         >5

 7 1901AD  Marconi's signal across the waves        LAMP         >3

 8 1919AD  Agreement in Versailles                  ATOM         >4

 9 1889AD  He towers over the World Exhibition      HITLER       >1

 Grid Password - ESTABLISH



BLOCK 1 : GRID 4

 ZONE

 1 1953AD  Hilary's lost his mountain               AVON         >4

 2 1789AD  The revolting French are hungry          HALLEY       >5

 3 1840AD  Buy the first black stamp                CAKES        >2

 4 1983AD  Thrust Two without Blake's engine        TOBACCO      >9

 5 1986AD  Bill's comet                             AERIAL       >8

 6 2222BC  Noah's getting wet                       RUBBER       >7

 7 1888AD  Erase Dunlop's pneumatic tyre            PENNY        >3

 8 1896AD  Marconi's washing his radio              EVEREST      >1

 9 1565AD  John Hawkins is smoking                  UMBRELLA     >6

 Grid Password - PARACHUTE



BLOCK 1 : GRID 5

 ZONE

 1 1885AD  Karl Benz's car won't start              NATO         >5

 2  219BC  Hannibal's elephants are here            ASP          >8

 3  982AD  Red man finds green land                 HAWAII       >7

 4 2001AD  A space                                  GILLETTE     >9

 5 1949AD  An organised treaty in the N Atlantic    ODYSSEY      >4

 6 1898AD  Curried discovery                        ERIC         >3

 7 1959AD  Grass skirts in the 50th state           PETROL       >1

 8   35BC  Bites Cleopatra in the milky way         RADIUM       >6

 9 1895AD  Invents the safety razor                 ALPS         >2

 Grid Password - ORPHANAGE



BLOCK 1 : GRID 6

 ZONE

 1   79AD  She blows her top over Pompeii           TABLE        >4

 2   64AD  He fiddles while Rome burns              ALASKA       >5

 3 1897AD  J J Thompson's single charge             VESUVIUS     >1

 4 1869AD  Rest for Mendeleyev's periods            ECLIPSE      >7

 5 1867AD  America's bargain from Russia            URANIUM      >9

 6 1944AD  Big day in Normandy                      ELECTRON     >3

 7 1999AD  Momentary darkness, just, in Cornwall    RIBBONS      >8

 8 1871AD  F A Cup is undressed                     NERO         >2

 9 1945AD  Ingredient of the atom bomb              D            >6

 Grid Password - ADVENTURE



BLOCK 1 : GRID 7

 ZONE

 1 1773AD  Getting thirsty at the Boston party      ROSETTA      >7

 2 1867AD  Dynamite without ring                    TEA          >1

 3 1756AD  This black hole is in India              CHINA        >8

 4 1851AD  Show off great crystals at the palace    CALCUTTA     >3

 5 1812AD  Overture noise makers                    NOBEL        >2

 6 1922AD  Pancreas gives hope for diabetics        EDWARD       >9

 7  163BC  Hieroglyphic stone for Ptolemy V         INSULIN      >6

 8 1997AD  Hong Kong takes the slow boat            CANNON       >5

 9 1042AD  He confesses to being crowned            EXHIBIT      >4

 Grid Password - ECCENTRIC



BLOCK 1 : GRID 8

 ZONE

 1 1796AD  Jenner's cowpox pricker                  MANGER       >9

 2 1912AD  Titanic needs a target                   CRASH        >4

 3 1969AD  Big bird gives a giant leap for mankind  BAHAMAS      >8

 4 1929AD  Black Tuesday in Wall Street             EAGLE        >3

 5 1066AD  One in the eye for Harold                TRIANGLE     >7

 6 1953AD  The queen shall have a ball              ARROW        >5

 7  543BC  Pythagoras has some squares              NEEDLE       >1

 8 1492AD  To them he sails the ocean blue          ORB          >6

 9    4AD  What a Messiah - no crib for a bed       ICEBERG      >2

 Grid Password - COMBINATE



BLOCK 1 : GRID 9

 ZONE

 1 1911AD  Amundsen's southern flag holder          HYDROGEN     >5

 2   44BC  Caesar beware the 15th of March          ARCHDUKE     >8

 3 1805AD  A hardy man dies at Trafalgar            POLE         >1

 4 1969AD  Concorde goes supersonic                 APPLE        >9

 5 1900AD  Zeppelin's gas                           MORSE        >7

 6 1454AD  Guttenburg's bible is too faint          IDES         >2

 7 1837AD  Dashed clever telegraph man              INK          >6

 8 1914AD  Ferdinand shot dead without his title    BOOM         >4

 9 1682AD  Newton sees the fruits of gravity        NELSON       >3

 Grid Password - AMPHIBIAN



BLOCK 2 : GRID 1

 ZONE

 1 1557AD  Steer Drake's Golden Hind around the ..  PENDULUM     >4

 2 1961AD  J F K's fiasco in this Cuban bay         SILICON      >5

 3 1913AD  He counts alpha particles                RUDDER       >1

 4  602AD  Galileo's swinger                        AIRSHIP      >7

 5 1959AD  Integrated circuit is backwards          INTERRUPT    >9

 6 1876AD  Alexander Graham's has a ring to it      GEIGER       >3

 7 1919AD  Transatlantic first                      NEUTRON      >8

 8 1932AD  No charge                                PIGS         >2

 9 1916AD  Prevent bullet hitting the Baron's prop  TELEPHONE    >6

 Grid Password - STRAPPlNG



BLOCK 2 : GRID 2

 ZONE

 1   35AD  Judas shops Jesus with one               DICKENS      >9

 2 1785AD  'The Thunderer' needs control            THERMOMETER  >4

 3 1935AD  Palindromic radio detection and ranging  ALCOHOL      >5

 4 1596AD  Galilei takes temperature                REICH        >8

 5 1916AD  Getting prohibitively dry in the U S A   KISS         >1

 6 1834AD  Faraday's positive about electrolysis    EDITOR       >2

 7 1928AD  Mickey the rodent is born                ANODE        >6

 8 1933AD  Chancellor Hitler proclaims the third    RADAR        >3

 9 1853AD  Carol's Christmas author                 MOUSE        >7

 Grid Password - TRADEMARK



BLOCK 2 : GRID 3

 ZONE

 1 1834AD  Babbage's calculating device             GALILEI      >4

 2 1000AD  He finds new land in America             GAS          >5

 3  776BC  Olympic contestant starts the Greek cal  ERICSSON     >2

 4 1590AD  He drops his balls off the Twr of Pisa   T            >9

 5 1855AD  Fuel for von Bunsen's device             RUBY         >8

 6 1954AD  Hydrogen bikini on a coral island        GOLDS        >7

 7 1936AD  Owens gets four in Berlin                ATHLETE      >3

 8 1963AD  Gem shoots Lee Harvey Oswald             ENGINE       >1

 9 1908AD  Ford's model                             ATOLL        >6

 Grid Password - AGGREGATE



BLOCK 2 : GRID 4

 ZONE

 1 1941AD  Whittle powerlessly                      ESCALATOR    >5

 2 1957AD  Orbiting travelling companion            ELECTRA      >8

 3 1981AD  Re-usable rocket from badminton          JET          >1

 4 1896AD  Light the modern olympics                MINISTRY     >9

 5 1898AD  Moving stairs in Harrods                 ARC          >7

 6 1944AD  Found money fund in Bretton woods        SPUTNIK      >2

 7 1806AD  Triumphant symbol in Paris               IMF          >6

 8  417BC  Euripides has a complex                  TORCH        >4

 9 1721AD  Walpole in his prime                     SHUTTLE      >3

 Grid Password - MAJESTIES



BLOCK 2 : GRID 5

 ZONE

 1 1862AD  Focault can't see its speed              ANTIBIOTIC   >7

 2 1854AD  General Wooly charge of the Lt Brigade   LIGHT        >1

 3   27BC  Octavian's new identity                  AUSTEN       >8

 4  938AD  He makes a point of balls                CARDIGAN     >2

 5 1820AD  Andre-Marie's current unit               LAMP         >6

 6 1815AD  Davy's minor genius                      BIRO         >4

 7 1928AD  Fleming's penicillin is the first        AUGUSTUS     >3

 8 1811AD  'Sense and Sensibility' Jane             VOSTOK       >9

 9 1961AD  Gagarin's ship                           AMPERE       >5

 Grid Password - BALACLAVA



BLOCK 2 : GRID 6

 ZONE

 1  300BC  His space is geometric                   ORWELL       >8

 2 1888AD  Moving pictures are made of this         KITE         >7

 3 1900AD  Found work party                         SHELL        >9

 4 1981AD  Royal couple couple                      NAILS        >6

 5 1744AD  God save the King will become ours       FILM         >2

 6   37AD  Carpenter's material for suspension      ANTHEM       >5

 7 1747AD  Franklin's flying conductor              LABOUR       >3

 8 1948AD  Big Brother's father                     WEDDING      >4

 9 1907AD  Royal Dutch hatches                      EUCLID       >1

 Grid Password - SNOWFLAKE



BLOCK 2 : GRID 7

 ZONE

 1 1882AD  Detective begins 'A study in scarlet'    EXETER       >7

 2 1983AD  Australia's has a winged hull            SHERLOCK     >1

 3 1894AD  Rayleigh's and Ramsay's inert gas        MISSILE      >8

 4 1982AD  Barney Clarke's is artificial            ARGON        >3

 5 1971AD  Britain's new pennies                    YACHT        >2

 6  570AD  Muhammad's birthplace                    EUREKA       >9

 7 1880AD  Necktie appears in Oxford college        MECCA        >6

 8 1962AD  Crisis in Cuba                           PENCE        >5

 9  257BC  "I have found it" quoth Archimedes       HEART        >4

 Grid Password - EMPHYSEMA



BLOCK 2 : GRID 8

 ZONE

 1 1553AD  Lady Jane's nine day position            PACIFIC      >9

 2 1941AD  Pearl Harbour's contents                 ICI          >4

 3 1945AD  Charter signed in San Francisco          RUBBER       >8

 4 1926AD  Imperial Chemical Industries             UN           >3

 5 1495AD  Material for da Vinci's 'Last Supper'    TCHAIKOVSKY  >7

 6 1877AD  Schiaperelli finds canals here           PAINT        >5

 7 1882AD  His overture after seventy years         MONARCH      >1

 8 1841AD  Material for good year for Spock         MARS         >6

 9 1981AD  Double Eagle V floats over it            OYSTERS      >2

 Grid Password - IMPROMPTU



BLOCK 2 : GRID 9

 ZONE

 1 1665AD  Great plague carriers                    ORVILLE      >5

 2 1666AD  Sweet lane in the great fire of London   LISA         >8

 3 1215AD  Stationery Magna Carta                   OARS         >7

 4 1956AD  First video recording system             IRON         >9

 5 1903AD  He's right in 'The Flyer'                AMPEX        >4

 6 1484AD  From this Boticelli's Venus is born      SCROLL       >3

 7 1829AD  Help Oxford win the boat race            RATS         >1

 8 1565AD  Leonardo's moaning lady                  CLAM         >6

 9 1773AD  Metal for Coalbrookdale's bridge         PUDDING      >2

 Grid Password - ACROPOLIS



BLOCK 3 : GRID 1

 ZONE

 1 1960AD  Hitchcock's madman                       OIL          >4

 2 1942AD  "Play it again, Sam"                     HELENS       >5

 3 1929AD  Damned good President                    PSYCHO       >1

 4 1859AD  Crude discovery in Pennsylvania          STANLEY      >7

 5 1981AD  Saintly mountain erupts                  TERRORIST    >9

 6 1921AD  Prokofiev loves three                    HOOVER       >3

 7 1872AD  Meets "Dr Livingstone, I presume"        COMET        >8

 8 1949AD  Imploding jet airliner                   CASABLANCA   >2

 9 1972AD  Munich spoil-sport                       ORANGES      >6

 Grid Password - HOPSCOTCH



BLOCK 3 : GRID 2

 ZONE

 1 1901AD  Tatty beat in jazz                       OBERAMMERGAU >7

 2 1605AD  Guy with the gunpowder                   RAGTIME      >1

 3 1948AD  Walter Britain's tiny amplifier          AMBER        >8

 4 1770AD  Cpt Cook crosses this line to Australia  TRANSISTOR   >3

 5 1280AD  Marco Polo's credit for entry permit     FAWKES       >2

 6 1937AD  Synthetic fibres in New York and London  WHEEL        >9

 7 1634AD  Passion plays begin here                 NYLON        >6

 8 1928AD  Missing traffic light                    VISA         >5

 9 9999BC  Fundamental invention                    EQUATOR      >4

 Grid Password - WAVEFRONT



BLOCK 3 : GRID 3

 ZONE

 1 1954AD  Roger's mile upstairs in four minutes    ICARUS       >5

 2 1939AD  Levine and Stetson monkey blood factor   NIGHTINGALE  >8

 3 1982AD  "Counted them all out" from Invincible   YOYO         >7

 4 1948AD  Goldmark gives forty-five minutes        TARMAC       >9

 5  747BC  He flies discretely on melting wings     LP           >4

 6 1938AD  Germany's new annex                      HARRIER      >3

 7 1926AD  Come-come to Donald Duncan's new toy     BANNISTER    >1

 8 1855AD  Hygienic lady from Berkley Sq in Crimea  AUSTRIA      >6

 9 1959AD  Surface the M One                        RHESUS       >2

 Grid Password - LABYRINTH



BLOCK 3 : GRID 4

 ZONE

 1 1935AD  Exclusive board game is born             ORLEANS      >9

 2 1948AD  Instructions first stored in Manchester  ENIGMA       >4

 3 1927AD  First thing about 'The Jazz Singer'      AUTOGIRO     >5

 4 1943AD  Colossal code for the first computer     CYLINDER     >8

 5 1923AD  Juan de la Cierva's C Four flew          MONOPOLY     >1

 6 1976AD  Help a Viking dig holes in Mars          PROGRAM      >2

 7 1825AD  Everybody's doing it with G Stephenson   TROWEL       >6

 8 1877AD  Edison's sound medium                    SOUND        >3

 9  129AD  Joan of Arc's relief                     LOCOMOTION   >7

 Grid Password - ECTOPLASM



BLOCK 3 : GRID 5

 ZONE

 1 1861AD  Name his machine gun                     ROMULUS      >4

 2 1967AD  His first change of heart                LOUIS        >5

 3 1665AD  Pascal's binomial shape                  BARNARD      >2

 4  790BC  Twin of Remus in Rome                    NORTH        >9

 5 1927AD  Lindenbergh's trans-Atlantic saintly ..  MEMPHIS      >8

 6 1979AD  Khomeini's country                       EMPIRE       >7

 7 1931AD  Tallest building in the state            TRIANGLE     >3

 8 2905BC  Capital of Egypt, not Tennessee          GATLING      >1

 9 1909AD  Peary's pole                             IRAN         >6

 Grid Password - TREMBLING



BLOCK 3 : GRID 6

 ZONE

 1 1899AD  Rutherford's first ray                   NAUTILUS     >5

 2  121AD  Build Hadrian's wall                     ROCKET       >8

 3 1536AD  Henry's dissolving victim                ALPHA        >1

 4 1714AD  Gabriel's temperature scale              TAPE         >9

 5 1958AD  It's 20,000 leagues under the ice cap    RABIES       >7

 6 1859AD  Darwin's beginning                       STONE        >2

 7 1885AD  Pasteur fights hydrophobia               ORIGIN       >6

 8 1926AD  Goddard's is liquid fuelled              FARENHEIT    >4

 9 1974AD  Watergate recording                      MONK         >3

 Grid Password - TRANSFORM



BLOCK 3 : GRID 7

 ZONE

 1 1909AD  Bleriot puts channel under his           MULL         >7

 2 1899AD  He varies an enigma                      WING         >1

 3 1934AD  Hitler's long weapons in the night       ROMEO        >8

 4   32AD  Five for the five thousand               ELGAR        >2

 5 1967AD  Too much in Apollo fire                  AMIN         >6

 6 1977AD  Ugandan mass murderer                    FISH         >4

 7 1977AD  Winged wine of Kintire                   KNIVES       >3

 8 1614AD  Where for art thou                       REMUS        >9

 9  790BC  Romulus' twin                            OXYGEN       >5

 Grid Password - FRAMEWORK



BLOCK 3 : GRID 8

 ZONE

 1 1947AD  Chuck supersonic in glamourous Glennis   SINGER       >8

 2 1877AD  Dead hot university rowing crews         ALICE        >7

 3 1982AD  T's and D's stage at Lake Placid         YORKTOWN     >9

 4 1936AD  Watch the B B C                          EDEN         >6

 5 1953AD  Deoxyribonucleic acid                    EIGHTS       >2

 6 9999BC  Adam's and Eve's garden                  DNA          >5

 7 1865AD  She adventures in Wonderland             RINK         >3

 8 1851AD  Choral first sowing machine              TELEVISION   >4

 9 1781AD  British surrender War of Independence    YEAGER       >1

 Grid Password - YESTERDAY



BLOCK 3 : GRID 9

 ZONE

 1 1839AD  Indian subject of Anglo-Chinese war      WEBB         >9

 2 1952AD  Agatha's new play                        LIBERTY      >4

 3 1816AD  His barber is in Seville                 NUREMBERG    >8

 4 1883AD  French statue for America                ROSSINI      >3

 5  664AD  Celtic church vanishes at N coast synod  EGG          >7

 6 1960AD  Cause of the Sharpesville massacre       WHITBY       >5

 7 1884AD  Faberge lays his first for the Tsar      OPIUM        >1

 8 1945AD  City of Nazi trials                      APARTHEID    >6

 9 1875AD  Captain swims the channel                MOUSETRAP    >2

 Grid Password - LAWNMOWER



The sequence of the Grids in Blocks 2 and 3 varies from game to game, although

the grouping of Zones within Grids does not change.



SUMMARY



      BLOCK 1    BLOCK 2    BLOCK 3

GRID

  1   REDBREAST  STRAPPING  HOPSCOTCH

  2   SPACEWALK  TRADEMARK  WAVEFRONT

  3   ESTABLISH  AGGREGATE  LABYRINTH

  4   PARACHUTE  MAJESTIES  ECTOPLASM

  5   ORPHANAGE  BALACLAVA  TREMBLING

  6   ADVENTURE  SNOWFLAKE  TRANSFORM

  7   ECCENTRIC  EMPHYSEMA  FRAMEWORK

  8   COMBINATE  IMPROMPTU  YESTERDAY

  9   AMPHIBIAN  ACROPOLIS  LAWNMOWER



Block Passwords

      AEROSPACE  METABASIS  TWELFTHLY



Game Password

      STEAMY



SOURCES

cassette inlay                                   (controls/instructions)

Crash            16     May.1985        p.18     (review)

Jim Grimwood                                     (solution)

Melbourne House         1985                     (fix)

Sinclair User    39     Jun.1985        p.22     (review)

Your Spectrum    15,18  (Jun,Sep.1985)  p.39,15  (hack)

