¢SOFTWARE SCENE (PART 3)¢¢¢ZONG (MAGAZINE)¢by KE-Soft.¢¢Reviewed by Kevin Cooke¢¢¢ What is ZONG? I had never heard of it until I saw a copy at AMS7, but Zong is a magazine that has been published in Germany since 1989. The copy I bought was the first English translated version, and all I can say is that I'm glad I bought it.¢¢ The price of 4 pounds seemed a little steep for a magazine, but you do get a disk of software with it. The first issue of Zong contains reviews of Bomb, Ashido, The Brundles, Donald, Lazermaze, Page Designer (all KE-Soft titles!), and Final Legacy and Star Raiders II by Atari Corp.¢¢ Next up is the hints, cheats and maps section. All cheats require either a freezer or diskmonitor, but the maps and adventure solutions can be used with no other equipment. Also reviewed are six P.D. games.¢¢ Zong also contains an excellent games programming guide (written for Turbo BASIC XL), a programming question and answer page, and, finally, instructions for the disk software.¢¢ The first issue disk contains no less than EIGHT very high quality games to keep you busy, all written in Turbo BASIC. KE-SOFT invite you to show your interest in ZONG to encourage them to publish a second English version. I suggest you take notice of the suggestion in the editorial: "Please tell your friends about ZONG and DON'T COPY IT!"¢¢¢ZONG is available from:¢¢ Kemal Ezcan,¢ Frankenstrasse 24,¢ 63477 Maintal,¢ Germany.¢¢ Phone +49 6181 87539¢ Fax +49 6181 83436¢¢Price = 4 pounds + P&P¢
