{"id":25663,"date":"2020-10-15T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25663"},"modified":"2020-10-20T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:10:28","slug":"amtix-november-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/amtix-november-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtix (November 1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FAmtix%2FAmtix_01&amp;twg_show=Amtix_01_Nov_1985_0000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Amtix_01_Nov_1985_0000-739x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FAmtix%2FAmtix_01&amp;twg_show=Amtix_01_Nov_1985_0000.jpg\">Amtix &#8211; Issue Number 1 &#8211; November 1985<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amtix was a relatively short-lived magazine published in the U.K. dedicated to Amstrad computers, mostly covering gaming. Most from North America probably aren&#8217;t familiar with Amstrad computers but they were quite popular in the U.K. in the 1980s and early 1990s. Issue number 1 from November 1985 includes:<\/p>\n<p>Top Games for November<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Highway Encounter<\/b> &#8211; Vortex and Panayi challenge you to a fight on a long-long road.<\/li>\n<li><b>Dragontorc<\/b> &#8211; Hewson&#8217;s mammoth graphical adventure is set to hit the top of the charts.<\/li>\n<li><b>Starion<\/b> &#8211; Can you take on the challenge of saving time itself from alien ravages in this exciting new arcade puzzler?<\/li>\n<li><b>Sorcery Plus<\/b> &#8211; The sequel proves to be better than the original in Virgin&#8217;s latest arcade\/adventure.<\/li>\n<li><b>Red Moon<\/b> &#8211; Sean Masterson discovers that seeking crystals isn&#8217;t easy when it comes to Level 9&#8217;s latest adventure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amtix! Competitions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Starion<\/b> &#8211; Melbourne House have 50 copies of their exciting new mind-twister up for grabs.Can you make it?<\/li>\n<li><b>Macadam Bumper<\/b> &#8211; How much of a pinball wizard are you? There&#8217;s lots of unusual prizes at stake in this one.<\/li>\n<li><b>World Cup Soccer<\/b> &#8211; A chance to meet Ray Clemence and a copy of McMillan&#8217;s newest football game in this competition &#8211; 50 to go!<\/li>\n<li><b>EEE Dakka Boom!<\/b> &#8211; US Gold want 30 lucky winners to get an RS232 interface and some copies of their new shoot em up release, RAID<\/li>\n<li><b>Daft As Design Design<\/b> &#8211; Are you as loony as these madcap programmer? You are? Good, then you could win a fabulous mystery prize &#8211; really you could.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>November Specials<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Complete Guide<\/b> &#8211; Robin Candy catches up on a lot of games software in this first part to the complete Amstrad games software guide<\/li>\n<li><b>Previews<\/b> &#8211; We take a look at two forthcoming releases, Doctor Who from Micro-Power, and Scooby Dooby Do from Elite<\/li>\n<li><b>Charge of the Lightpen Brigade<\/b> &#8211; Franco Frey wonders whether the brave cause of the lightpen is hopeless because mice have been nibbling at them&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Main Headings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Editorial<\/b> &#8211; The AMTIX! team says hello, a few useful bits about the mag, and On The Spot &#8211; your letter (well it will get bigger).<\/li>\n<li><b>News<\/b> &#8211; Some astounding ideas from DK&#8217;tronics, plus other events and non-events.<\/li>\n<li><b>Amtips<\/b> &#8211; Robin Candy kicks off his regular column to help you if you&#8217;re stuck and otherwise to cheat if you&#8217;re not. Plus maps for Dun Darach, Pyjamarama, Everyone&#8217;s a Wally and The Lords of Midnight.<\/li>\n<li><b>Amtech<\/b> &#8211; Apart form lightpens, we&#8217;re also looking at CP\/M, tape to disk utilities, a new word processor, Zedis and the Super Power&#8217;s DISCPOWER among other bits and pieces.<\/li>\n<li><b>From The Grotto<\/b> &#8211; In keeping with the publishing tradition of suggesting that adventure columns are written by wizards, dwarves, fat-bellied jovial landlords from such charming residences as caves, castles and ancient inns&#8230;Meet Sean Masterson, our resident leprechaun in his wee grotto. He&#8217;s checking out a few adventures for you and looking at an amazing new Graphics Adventure utility.<\/li>\n<li><b>Strategy<\/b> &#8211; And if that weren&#8217;t enough, he likes wargames et al&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><b>The Terminal Man<\/b> &#8211; The first episode of our full colour comic strip.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Amtix &#8211; Issue Number 1 &#8211; November 1985 Amtix was a relatively short-lived magazine published in the U.K. dedicated to Amstrad computers, mostly covering gaming. Most from North America probably aren&#8217;t familiar with Amstrad computers but they were quite popular in the U.K. in the 1980s and early 1990s. Issue number 1 from November 1985 includes: Top Games for November Highway Encounter &#8211; Vortex and Panayi challenge you to a fight on a long-long road. Dragontorc &#8211; Hewson&#8217;s mammoth graphical adventure is set to hit the top of the charts. Starion &#8211; Can you take on the challenge of saving time itself from alien ravages in this exciting new arcade puzzler? Sorcery Plus &#8211; The sequel proves to be better than the original in Virgin&#8217;s latest arcade\/adventure. Red Moon &#8211; Sean Masterson discovers that seeking crystals isn&#8217;t easy when it comes to Level 9&#8217;s latest adventure. Amtix! Competitions Starion &#8211; Melbourne House have 50 copies of their exciting new mind-twister up for grabs.Can you make it? Macadam Bumper &#8211; How much of a pinball wizard are you? There&#8217;s lots of unusual prizes at stake in this one. World Cup Soccer &#8211; A chance to meet Ray Clemence and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[174,3695,2362],"class_list":["post-25663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-amstrad","tag-amtix","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}