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CEOS Hardware lips November 1987
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The COMMODORE 64/128 User's Guide
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GIVE YOUR COMMODORE A FLEET TO COMMAND!
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"A" Rating.
Run Magazine, March, 1987.
Fleet System 2+ and 4 are powerful, easy to use and inexpensive. Both Fleet System 2+
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Fleet System 2 +
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VOLUME 4, NUMBER II
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Commodore Party Animal by Lmaie Brown
38
Maybe your computer can't blow up balloons, but it surely can be the life df the parly.
The Tale of the RAM and the Mouse by Barbara Mint*
45
Commodore's new RAM expansion cartridges and proportional mouse, and the software being written for them, art1 adding a chapter to ihc C-64/C-128 story.
* 64 DOS SHELL by John Ryan
52
This C-OI equivalent to Commodore's 1571 DOS Shell disk utility is jus! as handy as the original, and ilien some.
* WORIIMAN by William Tumblestm
60
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* Color Hi-Res Graphics by Daniel Monies
70
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* SNOWFLAKE fry Inn Adam and Tim Walsh
76
There's no need for cold and clouds; your C-128 can create it winter
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79
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DEPARTMENTS
RUNNING Ruminations
8
Remembering ihc past: a look at PET User Notes.
MAGIC by Jim Harden
12
The original column of hints and tips for performing Commodore com puting wizardry.
News and New Products
16
Recent developments and releases in tlic world of Commodore computing.
Mail RUN
20
Input from our readers.
Software Gallery
24
Reviewi of: • Basic 8.1)
• WordPro ()■! with Turbo Load and Save
• Teddy Bear.rels of Fun 4
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Reading Comprehension • RSVP
• Video Title Shop; Graphics Companion
GEOWATCH by Matthew Stern
82
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RUN's column for users of the GEOS operating system. This month: using Commodore's 1351 mouse, Berkeley's geoPrinl Cable and the Tymac
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DD4ND Bri.sson Masj U3IHQ EDlTOHlPHDDHCTTON
* Easy Applications by Michael Brouuard
84
Shori but useful applications for tout < iommodorc computer, This month: a super sorting program for suing and numeric arrays.
.Swain PRAT1 HhUhW K [ H 115 K
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Telecomputing Workshop by David Bradlty
90
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Harold b. bjornsen
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TECHNICAL MlUfAOKR
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Resource Center by Margani Morabtto
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RUN'S column on Commodores and education. This month: answers to
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Hardware Gallery
98
Reviews of:
JIM STHAS^tA
Am Diki.cicik R()SSIAN A. KK1CK
* Double Quick Brown Box
• Blowup
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Learn To Walk Before You RUN
101
First steps for new Commodore owners.
Commodore Clinic byjim Strasma Cut a problem or question
102
DlSIONEBS Annk Dcllon
PRDDUOTION Assistant Rum Bkkedict
related to Commodore computing? This Avmii iaii PUBUKHEBSALES MamADER
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Kj'hl'llhN ROBBDQ
How To Type RUN Listings
119
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* MEGA-MAGIC by Richard De A'Moretli
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Tips and techniques that are bigger than Magic, This month; a short
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RUIMning Ruminations Remembering the Past: A Look at PET User Notes.
The issues also contained program list
Glory Days Although its roots arc buried well in the past, the microcomputing industry
an
software exchange for PET users.
these shortcomings. However, one nice
The
concerns and
users
interests
hear
facing
began just ten short years ago. Most of
these early
us were not there at the outset, but each of us h;is ;i story to tell about how lie became involved with microcomputers.
blance to problems computtristt face
A decade ;igo, llie two Steves—
party developer offered frustrated users
ings and played a very Important role as a
some resem
alternate
keyboard
to
overcome
feature of the PET keyboard was its
numeric keypad. The early marketing thrust of Com
today:
modore was toward users to develop
—procuring software and hardware. There were a handful of software de
ucational
Software for the machines and "lo ed institutions where the I'ET
velopers, including Commodore, who were encouraging authors to submit PET programs (on cassette, of Course).
will receive large exposure." It was also
(ihe computer, not the movie) was Com
Commodore was slow lo market hard
modore's entrant in the microcomputer
wart- support for the PET, but they
munity, while, in these early days, little attention was given to the potential lor
market rate.
eventually released peripherals such as
the home market. Purchasers could or
pi inters, single- and double-disk drives and memory expansion. Commodore
der machines either direct!) IVoin Com
also later came oui with MiK and 32K
the time) or from dealers.
Wozniak and Jobs —were marketing
their Apple II computer, Tandy had in
troduced its TRS-80 Model 1, and 2001
The PET 2001 was announced in May
1977. and delivery of [he product started in September of dial year. I
recently
uncovered
a
collection
thought that the PET would play an important
role in the
business
com
modore (located in Palo Alto, CA, at While PIT (which stood for Personal
models of the PET.
of High
— lack ofdocumentation. Manuals were
Electronic Transactor) was a cute name
Springs, FI.) of PET User Notes, which
sketchy, and readers were Starving for
for a computer, writers—in ads ami ar-
chronicles the travails and triumphs of
information on how to take advantage
those early PET owners. While computer magazines of lhat
of their new machines. The PET came
time featured articles about the PET, vember 1977, was the first publication
was replaced by a 38-page "temporary" manual. Then Commodore introduced a "new and improved" 5(>>page manual,
dedicated to ihis machine.
with promises of a "real" manual. Sup
Spearheaded by Gene Heals, a fulltime employee at A B Computers in
posedly. Chuck Peddle, the designer of the PET, left Commodore without fin
Montgomeryville, PA (a distributor of
ishing the PET manual.
was a bimonthly
of the
constructed with a metal case, and two
I'ET User Group and available to non-
versions were available—the PET -IK
members for $5 a year.
Dan Fylstra, who later introduced the mi
for $595 and the PF.T 8K for $795. Doit-yourselfers—by adding a jumper and RAM chips—could upgrade their -IK machines to KK ai a lost of less 111illi ihe $2(Ki difference. However, most
crocomputing world to VisiCalc, and [iin Butteriield, who, through his articles and
more for the installed additional '!K.
(courtesy of David St. John
PET UierNules, which premiered in No
early PET computers), PET Viet Nota publication
Although the early issues were mostly
written by Heals, User Notes featured arti cles by other PET users. Most notably,
programs, did (and! still docs) much to promote Commodore computing. Most of the articles published in the
first issues were tutorial, explaining how lo use and program the machine.
For example, "C! IAINING, Ot How To RUN
Programs Too
Large
For Your
Memory" by Dan Fylstra, "Using the PF.Ts 8 Bit Parallel I/O Port" by Dan Fylstra, "PET Cassette File Usage" by
Gene Beals
and
"'I'l'.T's
FOR-NEXT
with an initial nine page manual, which
Tile original
PET computers were
people were apparently willing to pay The computer came with a nine-inch black-and-white monitor (25 x '1(1 dis play), which featured good resolution,
and ihe infamous square keyboard lay out. Owners, particularly touch-typists, had a difficult lime with ihis keyboard because the keys were lined up directly under one another—no! offset as they
licle headlines—took every liberty with the word: "House-Break Your PET," "lame Your PET," "Tricks To Train Your PET," or, my
Kelp
favorite,
"Teaching Your PET to Bark."
PET User Notes may have hcen the first, but other PET-spccific publica tions .soon followed. The PET Pnjirr.
which was later incorporated into the now defunct Midnight Software Gazette,
started
in
May '78. The
name was
quickly changed ti» simply The Paper upon Commodore's insistence that the word PET is proprietary. Note that both PET User Notes and, later, PET Gazette
were obviously not as compliant to Commodore's request and used the PET name with impunity. As they do loday. those early user groups and publications played a com
forting role in nurturing the microcom puter market. They were a valuable source of information, programs and,
yes, reassurance for those somewhat ad venturous, although easily frustrated, pioneers
who
walked the
microcom
puting frontier.
are on a typewriter. (Subsequent PET units featured a fall-size, standard key board.) User Notes also reported thai
Loops, Arrays, and a Simple Son Pro
keytop surfaces wore off on the more
Dennis Brisson
gram" by [tan iiullei field.
heavily used keys. Ai
Edil<ir-in-Chief
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Magic Simplify your disk loads; give your ch ilxl a drawing program that Is easy to use; produce seven consecutive sprite sizes; toggle between two 80-column screens; and more. Compiled by JIM BORDEN
S43C C-128 Directory Name Array 1 liked Cfi4 Directory Name Array (July 1987) so much that I wrote this version for (lie C-128. In tin- process, I added
70
75
10
C128
DIR
READ-JON
R
DATA
192,255,240,3,76,104,12,200,240,24
FORI=3072TO32 79:READX$:X=DEC(X$):POKEI,
85
:
X:T=T+X:NEXT
90
DIMA$(145):SYS3072:RREG,N
95
FORI=1TON:PRINTA$(I):NEXT
IFT<>28041THENPRINT"DATA
20
POKE58,2 43:CLR:F$="S":X=LEN(F$)
25
FORI=1TOX:POKEI+3282,ASC(MID$(FS,I}):NE
ERR.":END
XT:POKE3082,X
DATA 169,11,162,8,160,0,32,186,255,169, 1,162,211,160,12,32,189,255,32,192
35
162,1,32,119,255,238,209,12,230,25
0
CURTIS
15
30
DATA
0,172,208,12,230,251,208,2,230,252 80
REM
250,208,25,160,1,165,251,162,253,1
42,185,2,162,1,32,119,255,200,165,252
a variable, V, for pattern matching. 5
DATA
DATA 255,162,14,32,198,255,160,0,140,21
As with the C-64 version, the array that stores the directory
must he the first array dimensioned. In my demo, A$(0)
contains the disk Hume, with the filenames storting in A$(l).
The number of filenames is passed to Basic with the KKKG.N
command. Ik- sure to use a comma before [he variable.
—Jon r. Curtis, central point, or
0,12,132,250,140,209,12,165,50,133 40
DATA
133,253,169,0,133,251,169,243,133,252 DATA 160,1,32,207,255,166,144,240,13,32
543D A Better Filename
45
,204,255,169,14,32,195,255,174,209,12
you save your files, add a prefix of two characters and a
50
254,24,165,49,105,7,144,2,230,254,
DATA 202,96,192,6,144,54,201,34,208,10, 173,210,12,73,1,141,210,12,16,40,174
55
DATA
210,12,208,39,192,32,208,31,169,25
3,141,185,2,16 5,2 50,162,1,160,0,32
60 DATA 119,255,132,250,136,24,165,253,105 ,3,14 4,2,230,2 54,133,25 3,76,192,12
65
DATA 200,76,61,12,140,208,12,160,0,162,
Here's a time-saver that will simplify your disk loads. When
shifted space u> the beginning of the filename, keeping the prefix plus filename within the usual 16-character limit.
Mere's an example. Save ilie RUN Scrip! hoot program to
disk with "WP<shifted Bpace>RUNSCRIPT 128". It will ap
pear as "WRUNSCRIPT 128 in the directory. As far as the
disk is concerned, the file is named WP and can be loaded with LOAD "Wl'".8. Try il with several programs,
—Eric Pedersen, apo, ny
251,142,185,2,162,1,32,119,255,165
Trick of the Month S43E C-64 BSave Command 45
mand to the 64.
50
5
REM
MEMORY
SAVER-HAZEM
JAUNI
1 0
REMSYNTAX= ! "NAME", START ADR , END ADR-t-1
15
FOR N=51200TO51330;READQ:POKEN,Q:C=C
20
*Q NEXT:IFCo16574THENPRINT"ERROR!":END
25 DATA 120,169,13,160,200,141,8,3,140, 9,3,88,96,120,160,1,177,122,201,33 30
DATA
208,77,32,115,0,32,115,0,201,34
,208,67,160,1,177,122,240,61,201,34 35
DATA
240,12,201,44,240,53,153,239,20
0,200,192,17,208,236,152,56,101,1 22
40
VI
36,152,162,240,160,200,32,1S9,255
1 frequently need to save puns of memory on the C-64, so I wrote tlie program below to add a BSave-type com
DATA
K. 11 M
133,122,169,0,101,123,133,123,1
NOVKMII1U 15IH7
DATA
169,2,162,8,160,1,32,186,255,32
,253,174,32,103,200,169,250,32,216 DATA
255,88,76,174,167,88,76,228,167
,32,138,173,32,247,183,32,253,174
55
DATA
165,20,133,250,165,21,133,251,3
2,138,173,32,247,183,166,20,164,21 60
SYS51200:NEW
:
DATA
96
If you wanl to use this routine to save memory (0 tape,
add the following line to the li.siiug: 25 I>OKEM278,1 The syntax for the- new command is !<filenaine>.<s(art
address>,<end address>+ 1.
—HazemJauni, E. Jerusalem, Israel
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MAGIC $43F Variable Tabs for Any Printer
program for you, remind you what computer you're using
'liilis don't prim 'hii in hard copy the some way they appear on the screen. Tin' following program will show how to align columns at the right or the left to gei the tabs to print out right. Ii will work with any printer and computer-
eliminate the if stmem&ni at the end of line 40. You don't 10 REM C-64/128 CUSTOMIZER-BOB KNIBB 20 MS="DO YOU WISH TO SEE A MENU (Y/N)
OPEN4,4:H=20:REM COL WIDTH FORI=1TO8:READ DA$:HT=H-LEN(DA$)
40 PRINT#4,SPC(HT)DA$SPC(H)DA$SPC(HT)"." 50 NEXT: PRINTS :CLOSE4 60
these to match your own definitions,) If you use a C-64 only, need to enter lines 90-140.
10 REM PRINTER COLUMNS-GEORGE VOGLER 20 30
when you're in 40-Colunin mode and display the function keys :it the bottom of the 12H screen, (You should change
(2
DATA 2,100,2002,393939,55,5335,8,4321
The program prints four columns of data. The first rohi inn is left-justified, the second is blank, die third is right-justified, with the cursor read)* for the fourth. The fourth column contains just a period to show thai it's properly aligned.
—george w. volger, houston, tx
5440 64 Input with Sound
90
REM
INPUT
WITH
SOUND
EFFECTS-JOSEPH
R.
CHARNETSKI
100
R=5 4272:FORJ=RTOR+23:POKEJ,0:NEXT
110
POKER+5,28:POKER+24,15:PRINT"{SHFT CLR
} 120 PRINT"!PROMPT HERE] "; 130 PRIHT"{CTRL 9} {CRSR LFHCTRL 0|"; 140
GETA$:IFA$=""GOTO140
150
IFA$=CHR$(13)THENPOKER+1,32:POKER+4,21 :PRINT" ":POKER+4,20:GOTO220
160
IFA$=CHR$(20)ANDLEN(C$}THENC$=LEFT$(C$
HOMES}(SHFT
FORS=55333TO55335:POKES,1:NEXT:IF FRE{0
50
POKE646,7:POKE1062,54:POKE1063,52:PRINT
60 70
GETAS:IFA$=""THEN60 PRINT"(CRSR LF)"A$:IFA$="N"THEN NEW
}<>FRE(1)THEN90
"{CRSR DN|"MS;
80
POKE46,PEEK(44)+8;CLR:LOAD"MENU64",8
90
KEY!,"DATA
" :KEY4,"PRINT":KEY8,"RENUMBE
R"+CHRS(13):COLOR5,15:POKE235,22
100
IFPEEK(215)THENFAST:COLOR6,1:PRINT:L=4
110
POKE1061,49:POKE1062,50:POKE1063,56:GO
:GOSUB130:WINDOW0,0,79,23:GOTO120 EUB130:GOSUB130:WINDOW0,1,39,22
120
COLOR4,8:PRINTM$:GETKEYA$:PRINT"(SHFT CLR)":IFA$="Y"THENRUN"MENU128":ELSE NE W
130
PRINT:FORI=1T0L+4:READF$,K$:PRINT"{CTR L
9}"F$"{CTRL
IFAS<Cf[RS(32)ORA$>CHR$(127)ANDA$<CHR$(
160)GOTO140 180
C$=C$+A$
190
POKER+1,28:POKER+4,17:PRINTA$;
200
IFA$=CHR$(34)THENPOKE212,0
210
POKER+4,16:GOT0130
220
REM CONTINUE
HERE...
—Joseph R. Chaknktski, Dallas, PA
$441 Protect Your ML Commodore
128 programmers who use ihe Graphicl:
GraphlcS commands to relocate the start of Basic to StOOO to open up a large area in shared RAM ($1800~|3FFF) may
be placing their programs In jeopardy!
[ iei'e's why: The Graphics command doesn't clear location
$D8 as Graphic!) does. SD8 must he cleared to send text to Ihe current screen, using ihe CHAR command, rather than
to the bitmapped screen where your code is stored. If the byte isn't cleared, CHAR will print the text over your Ml. codel
Always issue a Graphic!) command prior to Graphicf), or stoic a 0 in location SDH (216 decimal). —Bob Kodadek, Aston, PA
140
DATA
Merc's a program I use to automatically customize my
C-128 in either C-128 orC-64 mode. It will also load a menu II
HUN
■
NOVKMIH'.K I!W7
"K$"!2
SPACES 1";:NEXT
F1,DATA,F2,LOAD,F3,DIREC,F4,PRINT
,F5,SAVE,F6,RUN
,F7,LIST
,F8,RENUM
—BOB KNIBB, WALKERSVILLE. MD
S443 ML Memory Transfer Transferring large blocks of memory on the C-64 some times seems to t;ikc an eternity. Machine language routines can transfer them quickly, but why reinvent the wheel? Use
Ihe built-in Basic ROM routine at $A5EC (-1 HUM). This rou
tine will copy the character set (2K. of memory), for example, in less than a second.
You must provide a starling and ending address for the area to be copied and a new starling address to copy it to. These addresses are entered in lines 50 and 80 of the program below. This program demonstrates (lie transfer command by copying the character set (uppercase/graphics only), and it
customize! the character set with an underlined cursor. The subroutine at line 120 calculates the addresses required and
does (he actual transfer. 10
REM
20
REM -XFER CHAR ROM-
30
POKE52,56:POKE55,0:POKE56,56:CLR
40 50
POKE56334,0:POKE1,51 SA=53248:EA=55296:NS=143 36:GOSUB1 20
MEMORY
XFER-ROBERT
B
COOK
60 POKE1,55:POKE563 3 4,1:POKE53272,30 70
REM
-REV
TO
U.LINE-
80 SA=14336:EA=15359:NS=15360:GOSUB120 90
5442 CUSTOMIZER PROCRAM
01
;RETURN
,LEN(C$}-1):GOTO190 170
CLR)";
40
This Get routine disables the cursor keys and other nonpriming keys and produces a soft beeping sound as each character is typed in.
{CT
RL 0}?" 30 POKE53280,0:POKE53281,0:PRINTCHR$(142)"
FORI=15367TO16390STEP8:POKEI,255:NEXT
100
END
110
REM
120
EA=EA+1:L=EA-SA:NE=L+NS
-TRANSFER MEMORY
SUB-
MAGIC
140 A=INT((NE-YJ/256):B=NE-256*A-Y 150 C=IHT((EA-Y)/256):D=EA-2 56*C~Y
80
GETA$:IFAS>""OR F=0 THENC"C+1 NC-0:FORJ=1TO200:NEXT IFA$="{HOME}"GOTO20
160
POKE781,X+1:POKE782,Y
90
IFX>39THENX=0
170
POKE88,B+1:POKE39,A
100
IFY>24THENY=0
180 190
POKE90,D+1:P0KE91,C SYS41964:RETURN
110
IFX<0THENX=39 IFY<0THENY=24
130
70
X=INT(L/256):Y=L-256*X
—Robert B. Cook, Braintree, MA
120 130 140
: POKE55296+X+40*Y, C GOTO30
—Adam Millkr. Brandon, SD
S444 Lo-Res Draw Program My program lets you make simple drawings on the C-fi4's 40-column screen, and it's easy enough For a child to use. Use ajoystick in port 2 to control the cursor. The fire-bimoii,
or any key except home, changes the colors. Change the color to blxick to erase the drawing. Use the home key to
dear the screen and start a new picture. LO-RES
-
3445 C-128 Sprite Reduction The following program produces seven consecutive re ductions of any sprite you design, to give the illusion thai the object is moving away. The program will ask for the sprite
number of the sprite you want to reduce. Be sure that any other Sprites are saved, since the new ones will be stored in
10
REM
20
POKE53261,0:POKE53280,0:C=1:X=0:Y=0:PRI NT"{SHFT
DRAW
IFC«16THE
ADAM MILLER
the sprite area. After the reduction is complete, the sprites will be displayed on the screen lor you lo view.
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BIG LEAGUE SPORTS SUPER SUNDAY—Armchair quarterbacks the world over have made SUPER SUNDAY
Ihe best selling computer football game . This we attribute to the right blend ol graphics, game play and especially statistics, Because that's what seis Avalon Hill
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Apple1 II. C* 64/128. IBM" PC tor $35 00 NBA—We have taken the same concepl as SUPER SUNDAY from the field and pul you down on the court m NBA, the definitive pro basketball game. Licensed by The National Basketball Association. NBA gives you the same flexibility, visuals and real-life player stats so you can coach the Celtics dynasty, Kareem, Magic and the Lakers or eighteen othet great pro B-Ball teams Available lor Apple1- II and C* 64/123 for S39 95. IBM" coming soon.
STATIS PRO BASEBALL—It's luhhy that Americas favorile sports pastime has not been our best selling computer sports game. Maybe it's because you haven't known aboul il 'til now.
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News and New Products What's in storefor personal computers of tliefuture? Who won the 1988 presidential election? Give up trying to solve your computer game? What else is new? Compiled by HAROLD R. BJORNSEN
Sign On the Dotted Line
Mother's Day. Graphics from F.pyx's
300-page soficovcr, with 83 illustrations,
Graphics Scrapbook collection and other
gives methods of disguising your data
DENVER—MicroLawyer, a disk library
graphics disks compatible with The
through encryption and enciphering so
of over 100 common legal documents
Print Shop can also be incorporated
that only authorized deciphering can re
for
corporate
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cover the original data. $2! ,95.
personal,
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ami
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weekly, monthly and annual calendars
saver to be used in conjunction with ]<_•■
in si/es ranging from letters to ii six-page
Cm mi's
gal advice. Von tan prepare a complete range of legal documents and contracts,
horizontal annual banner. Create a Cal
graphics/lexl adventures for players who
endar is available for the C-64 for $29.95.
have struggled so long lo find the golden
using your own word processor. Docu
Check Reader Service number 403.
key to the dungeon door or to at las! pry
ments include power of attorney, pre marital
agreements, affidavits,
leases,
loan and mortgage forms, real estate Contracts, wills, notary public forms, ge
neric contracts for services and articles of incorporation, MicroLawyer, for tbe C-64, is available from Progressive Pe ripherals & Software (46'! Kalamath St., Denver, CO 80204) for $59.98. Check Reader Service number 410.
Back to Kerovnia
REDWOOD CITY, CA—Epyx (I'O Box leased Create a Calendar, a program
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text, graphics and borders; graphics for
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jury duty,
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Year's
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for
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for
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George Bush by a Landslide
graphics, humor and
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puzzles. A 40 page novella, a Bank of
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Kerovnia credit card, an Indenture and
age'. It's available for the C-64 for S99.9S
tain View. CA 94043) has announced thai George Bush won the 1088 U.S. Presiden tial election with 499 electoral votes to runner-up Senator Albeit Gore's (D-KV)
from Firebird, I'O Box 49, Ramsey, NJ
3!) voles. Popular vote percentages wen1
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thai creates a variety of personal calen dars for home, school or business use. The calendar can include a variety of
clues
RAHWAY, NJ—The Guild of Thieves,
play guide are also included in the pack'
8020, Redwood City, CA 94063) has re
has
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Contract of Service Certificate, dice and
Back in Time
Ktyi in Solving Computer Adventure
Slay the Black Knight CAMFHELL. CA—Set in medieval
times, Dark Castle features a hero, con
SSI, maker of strategy war games for
the C-64, used its computer-simulated
election game. President Eleci—19SH Edition, to conduct the race for Presi
trolled by the players, who must light his
dent at a charity gaming event in the
way through 14 rooms of increasing dif ficulty against plague-infested rais, at tacking bats and a fire-breathing dragon.
SSI suite at the Consumer Electronics
He must also escape the clutches of tbe
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dungeon's torturer and the spells of a
from a large roster of historical or pres
diabolical wizard to find and slay the
ent-day candidates.
notorious Black Knight, It's available for
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TheAlmanac editors say thai the $3000
Haua fun keeping
lar computers, including the Commo
office system in 1991 will have ten times
track of important
dore line.
lite computing power, 12 limes the main
Computer Cryplology explains how to
memory and nearly 100 limes die mass
a Calendar from
provide a protective blanket to keep
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Epyit.
your information from prying eyes. The
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dates with Create
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Infocom'B Plundered Hearts, a
romance
adventure set on
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dem and [i built-in local area network
gram. Listings are keyed to eight major
interface 10 allow communication with colleagues and independent electronic
curriculum ureas to match the software
information sources.
catalog rates each program according to
The Siooo system will be a scaled-
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tures,
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inforcement and other criteria. Order il
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of use, re
microprocessor, four megabytes of main
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display, one CD ROM drive and a letterquality or ncar-lcllcrquality printer. Its
performance will be between one and one-and-a-half million instructions per second.
COLORADO
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and capitalized present value. The focus of the program is on limited equity In vestments
and
leveraging.
A
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the Key to Write Protection LYONS.CO—The DisKey. :l plastic key thai takes the place of wrile-protcct tabs,
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For Tots?
Damsel in Distress CAM BRIDGE—Your
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Can You Defeat the Russians? McALLEN. TX—Borodino: 1812, Na accomplish
what Napoleon
ENGLEWOOD, CO—Image Technol ogy (8150 South Akron St., Suite 405,
Englewood, CO 80112) offers a largecapacity prim buffer that mounts inside
your Epson printer. With it, you can transfer data to the printer at comput er speed so you can use your printer without wailing. It's available in 25(>K
poleon in Russia, gives you the chance to
Set Your Computer Free
Bona
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POCAHONTAS, AR—Weaselgraphics
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controlled system lets you control infan
gineers with technical background can
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design
try stacking. You play Napoleon and the
fiers, power supplies, Tillers. Impedance-
computer plays the Russians, or you can
matching circuits and lay out circuit
use
boards, in addition, the hobbyist can
the two-player option, which
in
professional oscillators, ampli
YPSII.ANTI—The 1987 Survey of Fjiriy Childhood Software rates 229 early child hood (tor ages ;i-(i) programs published
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tigue and Morale options. It's available
the technician can replace lube circuits
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for the C-64 for $59.95 from Kreniek Software, 5401 N. 10th, Suite 214. Mc-
with solid state circuits. The programs
Allen.TX 78504.
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ESP Needed I'm writing this letter to clear up any
ulca and light pens available to aid in
program was designed for I54K, but it
entering information, but how about a
also had an option to expand the sce
magnification screen, similar to an an
nario and landscape if you had 128K.
difficulty RUN readers may be having in
tiglare screen, for reading output mi the
reaching ESP Corporation about the NI.Q Chip reviewed in last March's is sue. The chip module improves the
monitor?
typefece on Gemini 10X, ISXandDelta
10/19 printers. In September of 1986, the company,
Why can't publishers do this for ihe C-128? They couldn't put the enhanced
—CATHERINE S. FlKMIN
version on the back oi the disk, because
lake charles, la 70(501
back side. However, they could include
8003 Louisiana Ave.
In tost February's issue of RUN, the Re
the 1571 drive has trouble reading Ihe it on a sepai ale disk. This attractive fea ture probably wouldn't price the pro
which is officially called ESF Rollshutter
source Center column was devoted to this sub
Corporation, moved from 7900 Tumi-
ject. It specifically described the work of Don
gram out of sight (I expect I'd pay $5 extra for it), and it would make C-128
ami Trail, Sarasota, FL, to Village Green
f^terson, a retired electronic* engineer who's
owners happier with their purchase.
Parkway, Bradenton, PL When the RUN
devoting his "second career" to developing
review appeared, ii gave ovir old Sara-
C-6-1 and VIC-20 software and input and
sota address and plume number, Fur
output devices for the handicapped. Don will
ther complicating mailers, there's
send you his disks for only S3 each, and he's
another ESP Corporation in Sarasota,
donated the programs to QuantumLink for
so people calling telephone information
downloading. His address is 2645 E. South
are given their number instead of F.SP
ern, A326, Tempt, AZ 85282, or you can call
Rollshutter's. The review also generated
him nt 602-831-3519. See also 'The Speech-
a Hood of inquiries and orders, and ihe
Controlled 64," by Ktnt Patterson, in Ihsjuns
owner, Mans Roth, contracted my set-
■87 issue of RUN.
—Matthew Webster
kevmar, md Infocom htis certainly made a start, and Access Software recently announced a C-128 version of Echelon. We also understand that
a C-128 version of SubLogic's Stealth is in the works, and rumors are circulating that otherC-128 games (ire being developed as welt.
—Editors
You might also contact distributors ofpub
retarial services to help out. We're sorry that many RUN readers
lic domain software—both user's groups and
have been inconvenienced because of
commercial enterprises. RUN has published lists ofsuch distributors in the past and hopes to include an expanded and updated list in an
our move and the fact that there's an other ESP in Sarasota.
—KARF.Nj. RTITF.R
ESP ROLLSHUTTER CORPORATION
601 VILLAGE GREEN Parkway Bradenton, fl 33529
Q-Link Reservations When you recommend QuanlumLink
to Commodore users, I believe a certain
upcoming issue. We encourage purveyors of
caveat is in order. After joining, if you
public domain software, to send us their names
don't access the network during a cal
and addresses, and to mention specifically if
endar month, they still bill you the $9.95
they have programs for the handicapped.
monthly fee. According to their spokes
As fur a magnifying screen overlay, does
We're etso sorry that an incorrect address
—Editors
and phone number appeared in our pages, and
person, they consider Q-Link a service, which you pay for whether you use it or
anyone know of such a device?
we thank Ml. Hitter for clearing up this con fusing situation.
not. As I've discovered, the only way to
get rid of the monthly charge is to cancel membership, —Michael Schf.ttlf.r
—EDITORS
The C-128
I have multiple sclerosis and encoun
The C-128 has the power to be a great game machine, as well as a productivity machine. At first. I thought 80-column hi res graphics wouldn't be possible on
ter a number of problems that make us
the li!8, hut RUN'S Ultra Hi-Res Graph'
Software for the
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Playing Games with
ing a compuief difficult. 1 he problems
ics (February 1986) and Patech Soft
include fatigue, tremor and spasms in
ware's Basic H.O have changed that.
We've received other letters this past month pointing out that many of the services offered on Q-Link incur plus time and that Q-l.ink is .slow compared In other online services.
—Editors
GEOS Question goes
my hands and visual disturbances. If you
There are only two C-128-specific
know of any sources of programs, espe
games currently available that I know
cially public domain programs, that make using a Commodore easier for the
of—Infocom's Trinity anil Bureaucracy,
both of which are text adventures. Once
additions to my software library, but, un
physically handicapped, please lei me
I saw an Apple II version of Electronic
know. Also, 1 know there BTC voice mod
Arts' adventure The Hard's Tale. The
fortunately, there arc a number of frus trating bugs in them. Berkeley has
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cially features such as the Thesaurus and
glad you've written to tell other rentiers, about
market without complete testing and
Dictionary. Also, it lets me incorporate data from Data Manager 128 and Swifi-
Word Writer 128.
thorough docmnenouon. Even more surprising is their inade quate response when I recently con tacted them with a simple formatting
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calc 128.
—R. J. Archambault Phoenix, AZ
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couldn't answer the question because
We asked Bob Guerra to review Word
Send your letters to Mai! RUN, 80 Elm St., ftterborough, NH 03458. Each letter
the product was still new. If ihcy can't answer questions about how their prod
Writer 3, because it's the latest version of the program <>n the market, ami the gold of the
address. RUN reserves the right In edit letter!,
uct operates, how ran they expeel me 10
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In last July's Mail RUN column, we
RUN Script Features I must commend Robert Rockefeller
and RUN for an excellent product in RL'\' Script 64. I've died several word processors and find this one efficient and easy to use. In particular, I'm pleased thai it can use all the print op
tions on my NLQ Ll'rintcr, an Epson clone. As an
additional
bonus,
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Script tM's Define Macros feature makes defining macros as easy as can he.
—Robert Fletcher Annandale, va
iinitiated a feature called RUXning Around the World, in which we pe
riodically publish the names and ad dresses of readers who'd like to correspond with a Commodore user
in another sfate or another country. Since ihcn, we've received letters from more readers, from various countries, who would like computer
pen pals. Write to one of the folks below, and you're sure lo broaden your horizons, If you'd like to be listed in RUNning Around the World sometime soon,
More That's Write For run Readers Bob Guerra'a "Whai's Write fbr You?"
drop a line to Mail RUN. Make sure your name and address are readable, and mention the machines and com
puting activities you're particularly in(ercsted in.
article about new word processors in last August's issue was enjoyable and inter esting. It's good to sec people trying to
make Commodore programs less stub
born and more versatile—sometimes successfully. The days when you needed to count your word processor's legs lo see if it was a computer program or a mule may finally be past. Some of the programs you reviewed
sound pretty good, but others that have been around longer may he better. PaperClip, for instance, oilers macros, which none of the "new" programs you
reviewed do.
—JOOST VAS DlAS White 1'i.ains. NY
Lucien Grnvcllc
United States: I.inda Nclscn
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C-CA, C-128; word
Canada:
C-64; telecommunications
processing to games
Lcc Brian Hutchison
Judah D. Hill
846 Clifton Si.
549 E. McKellips Rd. #89
Winnipeg, MB
Mesa, AZ 83203
Canada R3G 2Y1
C-128; public domain soflware
Malaysia:
Sterling Peoples
Calvin Cheat]
223 Mclrose Circle
I'O Box 1032
Tryon, NC 2H7K2
Penang 10840
C-64; role-playing games
Malaysia
It's my opinion thai Bob Gnerra gave
C-64,'C-128; CP/M
poor consideration to TiuiL'works in his
Leonard Arnold Route 1, Box 33
August review of word processors, lie
Mexico;
Gladstone. VA 24553
reviewed their Word Writer ■' software,
C-ti-t; games, programming,
Writer li!8, when many of the oilier pro
Estehan Quijaro B. Barca/as #115 Fracc:Jose Colomo
grams were reviewed in theirC-128 ver sion. I've used Word Writer 128 for more
Mexico
than six months and have found it 10 In:
C-128; programming, games
which is a C-fi-1 product instead of Word
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Software Gallery This month, we have graphics programs to tickle tiie creative funny bones ofyoung and old alike, educational softwarefor the elementary set and etiquette softwarefor the adult social set! Compiled by BETH S. JALA
Basic 8.0
A
size of each color cell—the group of
ory. II you elect to upgrade your C-1 28
pixels that share the same foreground
to fjtK, you'll be able to store multiple
and background colors. Cells can he as
(540 X
Taps the Potential
small as 8 X 2 pixels or as large as 8
well as create virtual screens tlial ate so
X 16, with two other si/.es in between.
Of Your C-128!
Naturally,
large they scrolling.
This New Graphics Language
to
run
the
greatest color resolution, hi addition.
Basic 8.0 is :i graphic illustration of the fact that the C-\'28 really can be
programmed
the smaller cells give
high-resolution
color displays on its 80-culiimn screen.
200 images in screen RAM as
can't
be
viewed
without
While the display capabilities are im
Basic H.O lets you display all lti colors
pressive, they don't even hint at what
on the screen at the same time, in any of the four color modes.
the entire Basic 8.0 package can do. The
As you might expect, these high-den
single unprotected disk contains three independent
modules—the
extended
sity screens require a large amount of
programming language, a run-time
memory. A single Mode 2 image con sisting of 128,000 pixels with 8000 as
module anil a comprehensive drawing vide utility programs to convert images
veloped for an 8-bit machine." Sound
sociated byies of color Information requires almost 24K of random access memory for Storage, To store these
impressive? It is.
screens, Basic 8.(1 doesn't steal space allocated to program memory, expect
fonts to a formal that Basic 8.0 can read. As a programming language, Basic
Adding 53 commands to the C-128's built-in programming language, Basic
8.0 provides your computer with what the developers call "the mosl powerful and productive graphics system ever de
It's also especially good news for all
program. In addition, the authors pro
created with their earlier effort, Ultra Hi-Res, as well as standard ■10-coluniu
ing instead to find 64K screen memory
8.0's commands introduce entirely new
chips serving the 8563 video display
ways of creating, storing and manipu
tended for tile C-l 28 to only display hires
processor. At ihis writing, only Com
lating high-resolution color images on
modore's 128D machine is delivered to
your C-128. The program establishes a
ates exclusively in ■10-Cnlmnn modi'.
you with 64K of screen RAM already
graphics system that utilizes structures,
installed.
a term that applies to almost any pat
those graphics devotees who felt a little
cheated to discover that Commodore in
graphics with the VIC chip, which oper
Addressing that shortcoming, the
Since most C-128s were built with
tern, design, font or instructions that you create and store for later use, even
Res, turned their talents toward making
only 16K of screen RAM, you might conclude that the great majority of
the C-128's powerful BB6S chip easily
these computers can't handle even a
You can define two-dimensional and color patterns. Under program control, Basic 8.0 will make multi-drawn images by incrementing the height parameter of a Structure. You can even use this extended language to enter the world
same authors of the 80-colutnn mono
chrome graphics program, Ulna Hi-
accessible to Basic programmers. Without slowing other Basic opera tions, Basic 8.0 gives you the code that Commodore left out by installing a ma chine language wedge and a patch in
single 80-eolumu lii-res image. That's
not the case at all: Basic 8.0 will runjust fine on any CM28. You are, however, restricted to creating graphics thai will fit within the existing 16K screen mem
within another program.
the C-128's syntax error routine. The patch checks for the ampersand (@),
which precedes every one of the 53 new commands. If the apparent syntax error
begins with an ampersand, it's passed
Report Card A
Superb!
An exceptional program that outshines all others.
lo a separate Basic 8.0 Interpreter for processing1. This efficient approach doesn't affect the speed at which the C-128's
regular
interpreter
B
Good. One of tlie better programs available in its category. A worthy addition to your
processes
Basic commands.
software library.
Totally compatible with Bask 7.0, Ba sic
8.0
lets
you
program
SO-column
graphics ai a resolution of (i*1() x 200 pixels, iwice that of the C-128's 40-collimn screen. Basic H.O features one monochrome and four different color
C
Avar-age.
Lives up n> its billing; No major hassk-s, headaches or disappointments here. D
Poor.
This program lias some problems. Then.' ait better on the market.
display modes. All have a bit-mapped density of G40 x 200 screen pixels but
vary with regard to color resolution. The mode yon select determines the ■M
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of three-dimensional imagery. Basic 8.0
runs. The screen
pointer flickers an-
thai there's no way lo adjust the default
provides an environment within which you can control perspective, rotation, viewing angle, origin anil depth ofview. Tlit excellent user's manual explains
noyingly but does nut otherwise seem
sellings. Users should be able lo change
As mentioned earlier, making full use
the screen colors of Basic Paint and run it on a monochrome monitor without
each new command and offers several
of the potential of Basic 8.0 requires additional screen memory. Upgrading
pulling nut the soldering iron. In ad dition, while the program supports 11
sample programs to get you started pro
to
different printers, there's no provision
gramming in Basic 8.0. Commands in
chine's 4416 or 4164 RAM chips for a
clude
store
pair of'I4(i4s. This would ordinarily he
If you don't have an Epson or Epson-
several graphic screens in RAM banks (I and 1; ©Scroll, which moves the im
a simple operation, if it weren't for the
compatible printer, you'll have to load
fan that these chips are soldered to the
the appropriate driver every time you
age in any of eight directions; @Hcopy to send screen graphic displays to your
computer's circuit board.
run tile program.
simply unplugging the old RAM, you
If you really fall in love with Basic
printer; and @Kont to assign the char
must unsolder the existing chips and
8.0, you'll be happy to know that the
acter sets available in Text mode. Other commands that are new In-
replace them with sockets.
program is also available cm a user in
@Stash,
which
lets
you
to interfere with program execution.
64K
requires
swapping
your
ma
Instead oi
stallable chip (SI 9.95) thai plugs into the empty socket in your C-128 or 128D.
dude ©Wlndowopen loopen a window
Sales of Basic 8.0 should he brisk. I
within which Hask 8.0 can continue to
suspect a lot of graphics enthusiasts will
work; ©Rash, which reverses the im
want Basic 8.0 available every time ihey turn (in their computer, IIHitributed by Patrch Software, Inc., PO Hox 5208, Somer
age; and ©Zoom to enlarge a previous ly stored graphic
for changing the default printer driver.
to the screen. The
©Scale command even allows for pro
set, NJ 08873; C-I2S/S39.95.)
gram-controlled compensation for non-
—John Premack Lexington, ma
symmetrical pixel shapes.
To ensure that a program mitten in Basic 8.0 will run on any C-128, the authors supply a run-time system that
WordPro 64 with Turbo
can be given away or even sold by reg
Load and Save
istered Basic 8.0 owners. This means
that you are free to share or sell pro
For the Serious User,
grams created with Basic 8.0 without
paying additional fees or royalties. The
Eighty columns, a variety of fonts
compiler includes Workbench, a slick
and so much more at your
graphics interface that auloboots, con
fingertips with Basic 8.0.
trols up to four disk drives and lets users easily enter your program(s).
B +
While plugging in the new chips is
WordPro 64 Offers Many New Features The WordPro series has been on the market for a number of years. It has
Another part of this package is Basic
child's play, the soldering is best left to
Paint, a stand-alone drawing program
an experienced technician. Even so, the
stayed competitive because it truly is a
iLpgrade shouldn't cost more than S50.
sophisticated tool.
that lets you access a host of drawing func tions in any of the five Graphics modes. A
wonderful tool lor creating screens and patterns that can be used by any Basic 8.0 program,Basic Taint is reason enough to
buy the whole package. Controlled by mouse or joystick (al though I recommend the 1351 mouse), this comprehensive program for paint ing electronic pictures also takes full
Remember that opening the case of your computer voids the warranty. You might want to wait until the 91st day before yon make this change. Also, since hi-res color graphics have heretofore been restricted to the 40-
If you're serious ahoul learning a word processor and arc willing to devote the time and energy lo learning how to use this product, then WordPro li-1 is for you.
After you insert the cartridge {which works with many other programs) and
column screen, many users have been
disk, the WordPro fi4 word processor
Save package loads in 17 seconds. The
advantage of RAM expanders with high
getting along fine with a composite color monitor. Lacking an RGB moni tor when Basic 8.0 fust arrived in the
speed screen storage and provides an image lock to prevent accidental era sure of your work. Drawing functions available at the click of a mouse include
mail. I was dismayed to discover that I
and save at five times the normal Speed.
couldn't even see Basic Paint's critical configuration screen when I connected a monochrome monitor lo my C-128's
essor and spell checker on one side and the SpcllPro dictionary of 100,000
SOOin, cut and paste, erase, freehand
80-column side.
draw, lines and 1111. Basic Paint is a fun program that lets you automatically create boxes, circles, el
HO-coliimn monochrome monitor cahlc
lipses and other polygons that can be in tegrated with multiple-type fonts of adjustable si/e and proportion. A grid can be superimposed on the screen as an alignment aid when culling and pasting.
Incidentally, Basic Paint is the firs! program I've used that demonstrates
"mouse flicker," a problem apparently peculiar 16
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Although the manual doesn't men tion it, a simple modification to your gives you sharp and clear images until you lake the plunge and invest in an
with Spinnaker's new Turbo Load and program and corresponding files load The disk comes with ihe word proc
words on the other. You're encouraged to copy the unprotected disk, but you
must have the cartridge in order for the main program to work. After
loading
WordPro,
you
must
RG11 monitor. Just open the cover of the nine-pin plug and carefully solder
load a printer module. Tlte program supports 2"i different printers. Chances are, yours will work with one of them.
a jumper wire between pins six and seven. This adds ihe intensity signal to the monochrome video signal, allowing the Basic Paint screens to be seen. My only complaint with Basic 8.0 is
to issue commands and to imbed printer controls in ihe text. There are some standard codes like "1m" for left margin and some non-standard codes
WordPro uses combinations of keys
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like "j)[>" for page length, A checkmark
find that you're able to generate excel
begins all code lines. All the terms are
lent drawings!
lilted on uric page <>r the manual.
The package's two single-sided disks store libraries of sketches for use in your
WordPro 64 has all (be traditional
gin sellings, line spacing, insert, erase,
pictures. The artwork is excellent—the sketches are simple, yet colorful and ap
features of most word pro Lessors: mar
product! (DIM, (hie DIM fork, Allen, TX 75002; C-64f$39.95.) —Edith Chasen
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and copy blocks, to name a few. But,
pealing. The colors on the screen are
WordPro can do much more. For ex
sharp and distinct, and don't run into
ample, you can link text, search and
each other where objects meet. You can
replace
the
overlap objects and the color of the front
linked text, print out in different let tering styles, align columns on your sheet, print in two columns, make form
object will take precedence, which is great
letters and print your own graphics. After saving a completed document,
jects are one of the program's outstand ing features; there has clearly been a lot
you can swiftly check your spelling from
of artistic energy put into the manufac
within the main program. However, there are some shortcom ings with WordPro. While the manual is well organized, i found myself search' ing through the booklet on a number
ture of this program. Different back grounds and borders are supplied, as well as the ability to insert captions and
of occasions. Many of the commands
clearly organized. Each disk is labelled
RSVP explores the role and effects
and imbedded characters are not easy
to make getting started simple and easy.
of etiquette in a variety of settings. In
to remember. Plan to make a Cheatsheet
There's a section in the user's guide that illustrates the sketches that are
addition to its basic game scenario, the software offers a practice mode. Its "in
stored in the disk libraries. One quick look and you immediately know which
ternational" section lists 18 countries as choices. There are also 17 "national"
in
memory
or
through
and keep it nearby. You should expect to take some time
to learn WordPro 64. 1 found several
for teaching spatial relationships. The color combinations of the ob
a choice of eight typefaces.
The user's guide is well written and
RSVP
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Dinner at the White House? Almost all competitions require cer
tain basic skills. In hockey, skating is es sential. In polo, horsemanship is a must.
And in [he quests for business and social success—the real-life situations that most people actually compete in—acceptable manners are mandatory.
sample disk files to be very helpful in this process. This isn't a child's toy, but
disk and library contains the sketch you
categories, with features ranging from
want. In
"business meals" and '■correspondence"
a sophisticated package for the serious user. WordPro 64 with Turbo Load and
to "parlies" and "weekend out."
Save is a good value for the money and
smoothly and simply that you should have no trouble following the prompts and will only occasionally need the
the package is highly recommended.
guide for reference.
behavior arc available for each subject.
{Spinnaker SeJtWOn, One Keiidtill Square,
Cambridgt, MA 02139; C,(>4/$39.95.) —Saul Comkn Ambllk, pa
the
program
runs
so
Approximately 20 multiple-choice questions regarding manners and social
The drawing procedure begins with
Many questions are very concrete; for
choosing a background, then choosing
example, how snails should be eaten
sttck-ons that are cutouts ofVarious ob jects to be placed on the background and moved around. If you don't like where you put it—erase it! It's simple
Teddy Bear.relb Of Fun
fact,
A
with just a few keystrokes and clear, wellwritten prompts. Captions can be ed
This Easy~to-Learn Drawing
ited before final placement. When you're done, you can save your
Program Keeps Kids
creation to disk or print it out If you
Entertained for Hours
forgot to format a disk before you started, don't worry—the software does it for you from within the program. If
Teddy Bear.rels of Fun is by far the
you forgot to switch a disk, the program
easiest way to draw graphics on your
alerts you with a picture of a disk drive
C-0'1 lhat I've seen in a long lime! It's
and a bell.
designed for use as a learning activity, but can also be used by children to easily
a label, a poster in two sizes or as a
to Amy V.mdorliilt for etiquette
create their own pictures.This program
picture with or without shading, in case
rights!
is excellent for teachers and classroom settings, and should be kept in mind by
Your final picture can be printed as
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you'd like to have an outline that you can color in later. If you have a KoalaPad and Koala-
without snail tongs. Others are more
parents searching for educational, yet
fun and entertaining, activities for their
Painter, you can combine those draw
what type of recommendation letter is
children.
ings with Teddy Bear's sketches. You can
appropriate for a colleague about whom a businessman has mixed feel
Included with the program is a book let that contains 100 activity ideas. Sug gestions cover creative art, math, logical thinking, language ability, basic science
also automatically display a series often pictures with the electronic slide-show feature. In addition, the software is com patible with Epyx' Fast Load cartridge.
subjective and thought-provoking, like
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nered individual appears on the screen
with each question. A change in his or her expression indicates whether the
and social studies. In fact, adults will
Both adults and children will enjoy
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response is correct.
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several ways and is no more difficult
nalism ami politics. To win, the player runs! correctly answer a high percent
pleasant, low-key recreation. It should
than connecting an outside antenna.
appeal to individuals who arc Inter
Video Tide Shop is a tool that lets
age ofqiK'slions, including some about
ested in the way they present themselves
you create one or more video slides or
characters
and
situations
that
were
in social situations. That audience, of
title
previously encountered. While the pro
course, could include practically every
video tapes. Or, can you use it to create
gram
one. (Blue Lion Software, 90 Sherman St.,
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—Walt Latocha
when tin) many errors are made. The Software dofiS have some minor problems. A few typos cause confusion at times. Also, some players may not agree with the "proper" responses to some of the more abstract questions. In
addition, if someone is interested in only a few of the practice categories, he or she will soon know the answers to all of their questions. However, the
program
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enhance your
home
disk (sold separately) provides you with Hi predrawn backgrounds to ease the creation
of individualized
screens.
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Video Title Shop;
backgrounds. You'll find a 48-page instruction man
Graphics Companion ... C+
ual to master, plus an addendum and
Imagine the Titles You
several other inserts. It seems that after printing
Can Create for Those
the
manual. Datnsoft
made
some program changes and realized
Old Family Movies!
that some items were not clearly ex plained. Initially, I still found it difficult
than
makes up for its limitations. Its best
screens
If anything is more popular Than home computers it would surely be
lo maneuver through the program.
odd alternative responses to the mul tiple-choice questions and some of the
VCRs. Now you can put your Commo
Video Title Shop consists of two main
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facial expressions indicating incorrect
videotapes.
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where the action
The computer to VCR connection is
answers can be very amusing.
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the
features
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been made much easier to access. At
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matches the ability and needs of a par
other commercial products,
of how to create a simple sequence
ticular child, An adult can also choose
would have helped tremendously.
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Video Tiller lets you choose
pre
drawn backgrounds and place text on top of them. You have your choice of
use your Commodore to spice up your
responses. Math 2 can even issue a re
fonts, colors and pen strokes.
home prodvictions. Video Title Shop
port card for each child.
Multiple pages are available to make
If you are a video nut and want to
should be a welcome addition to youT
rect answer and the format required for
Stickybear Math 2 is an example of
it easy to sequence your creations. You
software collection. However, be pre
educational
can then use a variety of title effects lo
pared to spend some long hours learn
sounds and animation will compel a
move from one picture lo another, To create an entire video sequence,
ing
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use them again in the future.
of time and patience. Video Title Shop uses a sometimes
Stickybear Math 2
selections are finalized by pressing the
Basics with Your
huge letters on a blank background.
continue
finest.
playing
Its
and,
thus, learning; its automatic reaction
levels and formats are powerful tools for
individualized
learning.
The
in
structions are excellent, not only pre senting
the
software's
benefits,
but
also indicating both its limitations
and the effort that's needed for a par ent to use il effectively. All in all, it's
Comprehension
Stick to the Beat-
Instance, that you want to place some
... A +
Stickybear Reading
confusing series of terms and key strokes to get thejob done. For example, run-stop key rather than return. Say, for
of il.
Springfteid, il
video sequence that'll greatly enhance results you want is going to take a lot
out
—Jim Gkuisbs
The end result can be a very atlt active your video tapes. However, gutting the
most
(Manufactured />>■ Datasofti distributed by
software at its
D
an excellent product Stickybear Reading Comprehension has a structure similar to Math 2. It, too,
automatically adjusts its difficulty lo a child's capabilities. It also offers parents
or teachers the option of selling the
School-Age Youngsters
number of tries and (lie starling level
colors, using the cursor up-down key.
newspaper has added two more titles
for each of up to ■!<) children. The Reading disk contains 27 brief stories intended for children ages eight to eleven. They answer from one to nine questions on each, and parents or teach ers can create as many as five of their own compositions for personalized
To finally enter the text, you press run-stop again, then Commodore/E.
to its .series of educational software pro
instruction.
grams, which feature a now-famous fam
First you press Commodore/F to .select
For over six decades, grammar school
the font. You chouse the font you want
teachers have distributed the Weekly Reader newspaper in their classrooms. It has proven to be not only a treat for stu
by using the cursor up-down key and pressing run-stop. To select the color of the font, you press Commodorc/C, once again scrolling through the available
Once you've entered your text, you'll also have to remove an obnoxious as
dents, hut also a valuable learning aid. The company that publishes the
ily of bruins. The first, Stickybear Math 2, continues the firm"s tradition of in
terisk at the end. It's not difficult, but
struction and entertainment, while the
it does take extra keystrokes. The rest of (he features arc just as
hension, oilers little in either area.
awkward to access.
Incidentally,
the
manual constantly refers to tasks and objects. They're explained, but why
make it so difficult to begin with? On a positive note, you can import
pictures from KoalaPainter, Paint Magic, Quickdntw and Micro Illustrator for use with Video Title Shop. That greatly adds to the versatility of the pro
gram. 1 highly recommend the Graphics Companion disk for anyone who isn't
an artist. It'll give you some beautiful backdrops covering most major and an nual events like Christmas, weddings, birthdays, graduations and more. It's important to stress that Video Ti
tle Shop does absolutely everything it claims to do, '[lie final results are beau tiful scenes with appealing effects thai
you can be very proud of. There is little doubt that the longer you work with the program, the easier it'll become to cre
ate the videos you want. 1 feel strongly that the program's features could have 32
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second. Stickybear Reading Compre Math 2 is a sequel to the popular original Stickybear Math
program,
which dealt with addition and subtrac
tion. The new software covers multipli cation and division.
Math 2 begins by recording a child's name; the program can tailor lessons
for and track the progress of 40 differ ent students.
Recommended for children of ages
seven and up, this program provides drills and practice sessions. The child answers problems that range from mul tiplying single digits by one io dividing by two-digit numbers. When a correct
answer is given, a high-resolution ani mated scene with amusing sounds ap
pears as a reward. At lower levels, groups of objects dance to illustrate the solutions to certain questions. The pro
gram automatically adjusts its difficulty based on the success a child has had with previous questions, Math 2 lets parents and (cachers se
Reading is much less effective than Math 2. The most obvious problem is that its packaging mentions "a handy practical printout feature," yet neither the instructions nor the program itself indicates how printing can be done.
The absence of a sophisticated editing function can make the individually writ
ten stories, which could have been the software's strong point, difficult to en
ter. In addition, a wavy scrolling mech anism and an odd lettering style cause problems when reading the text. Worst of all is the near absence of graphics.
Without them, Reading offers little more appeal to children ihan a printed piece of paper.
Stickybear Reading Comprehension
suggests that even an experienced com pany can sometimes falter in the de
manding educational software market. However, the excellence of Stickybear Math 2 offers hope that the Reading Stickybears might learn something
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to seven times faster than nor mal. Part of that's due to the GEOS diskTurbo, but most of
it's due to the fact that GEOS 128 doesn't treat your 128 like aC64. You see, by recognizing
your machine as a 128, GEOS 128 operates at a full 2 MHz, instead of 1 MHz. So you get twice the speed. Twice the power. And since GEOS 128 also supports the quicker 1571 and 1581 double-sided disk drives— and the 1750 RAM expansion
unit—there's no telling how much faster that puppy will fly.
sort of like talking in sign language. For example, if you want a document for word-processing, you point to the icon that looks like a stack of papers. Click your mouse and bingo—you're in the file. If you want to erase the file, you drag the stack of papers over to the little waste basket and click your mouse. Poof. That's about as tough as it gets.
Working within the system.
Learning where things
are in GEOS is pretty simple, especially if you've ever sat behind a desk. Because that's exactly how we designed
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Past and slick with mouse or stick.
Using GEOS is ridiculously simple. All you need is a mouse or joystick, and a keen ability to point and click. Everything else is pretty much a matter of read ing menus (a technical term for
"little lists of things"), or select ing icons (a technical term for "little pictures of things"). It's
Circle 138 on Reader 5ervce card.
GEOS 128.
You keep your documents
and graphics in files; everything else stays right on the desktop: the notepad, the calculator—
there's even an alarm clock. In fact, the only thing our desktop
Now, we realize
that's a lot to pack into
one GEOS package. But
as long as we're packing it in, we might as well let
you know something else:
There's more. doesn't have is a place to put your feet when the boss isn't around.
But not only does GEOS
give you a place to write and draw, it actually helps you write and draw better.
Then place them wherever you want: either in your geoWrite
document, or in your GEOS Photo Album for later use. But no matter what kind of masterpiece you create, you
The older it gets the
better it looks.
It's true. Because there are
always new GEOS applications
just waiting to jump off the shelves and into your 128. Pack ages like geoDex and geoFile, for
Because unlike
your basic office model, our desktop comes with geoWrite and geoPaint built right in.
keeping addresses
and data straight. Fontpack and Writer's Workshop, for tweaking text with that special,
With geoWrite,
your way with
words leaves people speechless, as they watch you effortlessly cut, paste and move entire
blocks of copy anywhere on the page. And since geoWrite comes with different fonts in a variety
of styles and sizes, your docu ments become even more
dazzling. With geoPaint, you can draw designs. Create with col ors. And tantalize your tastes with tons of tones and textures. Invert, rotate or mirror images.
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always get to view it on a beau tiful, 80 column-wide screen.
No more scrolling left to right. With GEOS 128, what you see really is what you get. The more you put into your system, the more you get out of it.
Of course, when we say that GEOS 128 has far-reaching implications, we're not kidding around. Every GEOS 128 pack age includes free QuantumLink software, which hooks you {via modem) into a nationwide net work of Commodore people just like you. There's even a service that will Laserprint your docu
extra touch. And,
of course, geoCalc, a full-fea tured graphics spreadsheet for all you number freaks. They're just the first in a
long line of GEOS applications that are constantly being devel oped to keep your 128 up to date. So if you'd rather have your 128 grow up than grow old, load up with GEOS. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to your 128. Heck, you owe it to your grandchildren.
To order call 1-800443*0100 act, 234 GEOS 128 $69.95 (California residents add lie sales tax. I $2.50 US/S5.5O Rjreign for shipping and ldli
ments for you.
n Berkeley
Softworks
GEOS 128
The brightest minds are working at Berkeley. Circio 136 on Reaoei Swvce cam
Allow six weeks for delivery.
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MMODORE
Party Animal With the emergence ofgroup entertainment games, your Commodore computer can he the life ofyour next social gathering.
By LONNIE BROWN ne Saturday this past summer,
a friend of mine turned his computer room Into a bowling alley. A few days before, he had purchased 10th Frame, the bowling simulation program from Access Software, Me could have plopped down in front of the com
puter or against another player—or even a num ber of other players.
People who didn't own a computer often used to view both computer hobbyists and their ma
chines as boring or suspect. The hobbyist was a loner who
might very well be
up
to no
good—tapping into bank accounts or experi
puter and practiced until be hit 'Mi), then invited
menting with the mainframe at the Pentagon's War Room. Computers were either mysterious
his friends over. But llOOOO. He called and said
entities that wrought havoc with your charge
to come curly Saturday afternoon.
account or something you used at wink and
By the time I got to his house, the neighbors
wanted to ge! away from at home. However, as
were there, too, and he had divided them into
people have become unite familiar with them,
bowling leagues, The snacks were out, the soft drinks and beer were on ice and the computer
was hooked up to the wide-screen, rear-projec tion television set People who normally have only a passing in
terest in computers were actually enjoying them
selves! My friend, far from the party animal suggested by this scenario, had hit upon a recenl phenomenon in computer software: competition among human beings—notjust man vs. machine.
the atmosphere has changed, and now parly soft ware is turning serfs into surfers.
Keyboards and Cheese Boards Perhaps another reason more people haven't particd with their computers until recently is
that a party calls for food and drink, two things a computer doesn't need. Which brings up a
word of caution: Be careful when mingling po tato chips, dip and cheese boards with ROM
The party personality of your Commodore has been lurking within its beige case all along, hut only lately has there been software available (o draw it out.
My friend's !()th Frame, golf simulations, Scrabble and other games lend themselves to
Serfs become Surfers
and the computer can usually handicap players individually, so old pros can't automatically heal
The reasons for Ihis are varied. A few years ago, programmers were just learning what the computer otuld do. Then, as programming ma tured, so did the programs. In game software, players were given choices: play against the com
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chips, DTP switches and keyboards.
group play. Most people already know the rules,
a newcomer who plays on the novice level. The
controls used in group entertainment games are generally easy 10 master, and many games allow at least four participants. Some handle as many as eight. »>
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Oh. sure, you can still dig yourself silly with
Boulder Dash or go nn a solo hustle for Lode Runner's treasure. Bui doesn't ii get a little lonely?
Gaming Online "We art- finding more and more people are downloading games that can be played by two or mure people," says Ren;ito Gra/.iano, a spokes
man for CompuServe, "Games thai pit player against player—instead of player against com
puter—:ue becoming increasingly popular, The computer as an opponent generally plays a game the same way every time. You can detect a pat tern. There's no telling what a human opponent is going to do."
Quantunil.ink will let you and your friends play games with people in other slates. If you've upgraded to Rabbit [ack's Casino, gather around the poker table. Friends love ir> give advice when
you're trying lo fill an inside straight. Don't forget QuanlumLink's People to People connection wlien you and your friends are silling around tile computer, and your friends might
Take .Scrabble, for instance. Electronic Arts is
"Murder
distributing a fine computer version of this pop ular crossword game, developed more than ■!() years ago by Selchow & Itighter and converted
parties
for the computer by leisure Genius. Nearly
have been popular in Europe for a hundred
everyone knows how to play, but the program
provides onscreen prompts for novices. Up lo four can play, with the computer taking on the boring (ask oi passing out tiles and keeping score
(and, in a pinch, providing bints). If you're home alone, you can play a computer opponent—or even three computer opponents,
with each assigned a different skill level. If you don't have enough players for a foursome, the
years.
.
..
Now they're undergoing a resurgence
here."
be Interested in ihe hodgepodge town meeting
Computer will gladly fill in the vacant slots.
Such TriviaI Selchow & Rightcr also gave the world its bestselling hoard game, Trivial Pursuit Once again, nearly everybody knows how to play or can easily pick up the rules, and ihere are a number of computer versions on the market. Qukam, put out by lnterstel and distributed
by Klcctronic Arts, is a version in which players can control how many spaces tokens move by
that convenes nightly in the Q-l.iuk lobby. "The
liming answers, There Bre several game boards
computer," .says Q_-l,ink spokesman Dan Janal, "is a great equalizer. On Quantum!,ink, you don't know who you're talking to."
on the disk, and Quizam offers a rare feature for a trivia game: It lets you make up your own
The Name of the Game
controllers that plug into the joystick ports. The
questions. Suncom's Parly Quiz (.lame conies with four
a 15-pagc manual on how to sink the Bismarck
controllers each iiave four buttons, and the com puter recognizes which player was Hist with the
or memorize
correct answer. Kven with such sophisticated con
No one at a party wants to sit around reading
17 joystlck/fire-button combina
tions to play Computerized football. Those true-
trollers, I've seen the set sell for under $'J0 in
to-life simulations are fine for cennputer bull's, but we're after the hwd-and-play games thai will
catalog-type stores. Some reviews of the game
attract people who liaie computers.
several rounds, hut if you can pick il up on sale,
point out dial ihe questions get repetitious after
this is a good buy. (A hacker friend of mine bought Parly Quiz Game just for ihe controls.)
A game lhat turns a computer into the life of
a parly needs four main attributes: It should
Professional Software, Inc.'s, Trivia Fever is
accommodate at least four players; it should be
probably the only computer trivia game that can
short, probably taking no more than IS minutes and certainly no more than a half-hour; the rules should be easy; and il should lei players be as signed individual skill levels.
be used when ihe power goes off—because it can be played without the computer. The game offers three difficulty levels in seven categories. With-
Suruey says
you're on
Family Feud!
Scrabble- an on-screen uorsion of the popular hoard game.
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dim the computer, players use an Inch-thick book of questions and a spinner io determine the categories. Although 1'SI doesn't market Trivia Fever anymore, a company spokesman says there are still many of them floating through the dis
you don't overcook the lobster ihcrmidor, your
"You can offer your friends
tribution pipeline. These, too, are available at discounted prices.
an
Whodunit? Make Your Own MurderParty, from Electronic Arts, may transport computer partying to its ultimate; The computer literally becomes your social director, staging a parly for five to seven
friends. Murder parlies have been popular in Europe for a hundred years, and they were once popular in (he United States (there hasn't always
been television, you know). Now they're undergo1 Stiff a resurgence here.
In a professionally produced murder parly, ac tors portray a mock i milder, leaving clues along the way. The guests try to solve the crime hy observing, asking questions and examining props.
Now, a computer Can provide the script. You
evening's
murder party should be an event io remember! Spinning the Wheel If the people you'd like to lure into your com puter room have the slightest interest in televi
sion game shows, then the trap is waiting lo be sprung. SharcDala lias produced a well-done se ries of television game take-offs, including Wheel
entertainment
of Fortune. Jeopardy! and Family Feud. All three are faithful reproductions oi the tele
and send them
I keep coming hark to play. As on the popular
home with. . .an analysis of their personality."
vision programs, hut Wheel of Fortune is the one show, playeTS lake lurns spinning a wheel to win money and a clianre to guess the letters in a
hidden-word puzzle. There are more than â&#x2013; !()()
phrases on the disk, according to a ShareData spokesman. Friends of mine have worked this program over lor days wiihoui coming across the same phrase twice. The sptilely letter-turner doesn't exactly look like Vanna. but she does clap her hands when the wheel spins and uttcr
aloud from
"Oh, dnrn!" when it lands on the bankrupt Spai e. Up to three can participate in Wheel of For
computer-generated copies, purposely revealing .some clues and withholding others, unless di
will probably want to. However, if you should be
and your friends road the scripl
tune, and any nomoinatose person in the house
rectly asked by another player. The computer
unable to find a second or third player to fill
can also print out the party invitations.
om the panel, the computer will gladly supply
The Murder Party game booklet suggests a
Iciier-guessers. Politely enough, they will even
menu of appropriate snacks and main courses,
guess wrong letters.
and even includes recipes. Once all the prepa-
'['lie program keeps a list of winners, so high
rations arc done, the computer drops out of the
scorers can come back as returning champions,
picture: you don't even need to turn ii on during
(lame winners go on (o the final round, in which they must guess five consonants and a vowel to
your party.
Although there ate only two basic scripts on the
solve the puzzle within 3() seconds,
disk, the computer randomly assigns a player as ihc
Jeopardy! can he played by up to three players. Again, the computer will supply competitors if human ones aren't available. This game and Fam
murderer and rewrites die script accordingly, so the guilty parry changes from game to game. Even
if you're doing the printing, you won't know the criminal until the plot unfolds (unless, of course,
ily Feud each have about 30 sets ol (juestions on
you sneak a peek at the ending).
before coming across a duplicate board, Jeop ardy! questions are tough, too.
tile program disk, and you'll play many games
One of the murders takes place in an upscale
neighborhood (the butler did itP), while another
Robot Rascals, from Ozark Softsiapc (M.U.L.E.. Heart of Africa and The Seven Cities of Gold) and distributed by Electronic Arts, weds the com- i
harks back to the days of bcanliag chairs and incense. If your guests dress appropriately and
1 Hjppy
to
Birthday,
the world.
lif#
mn
rapidly.
and
Fro* nov un,
begin
TO
Vou vill
learn to orcrpt responsibility, rÂŤouriP5r
and
velcone
Change
htue
build
to
up
your
This is tho start of your life-long experience
with After Ego.
unige
Mt.ui'.'M physically rptaliaml Ly.
*nd
Join V.imin, Pat and your C-64 CM11NUE
on Wheel
of Fortune.
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piiter and specially designed playing cards. Twu
ar four players search for artifacts pictured on the cards. On the monitor screen, player-con
trolled robots search for the artifacts hidden on
While
"The computer
the planet Laustenfownd. Meanwhile, luck cards
can usually
or the Killer Kurd may make it impossible to
handicap
give tlie players a chance to improve their hand,
win. Robots can steal items from other robots by
bumping Into them. The game's rules are simple, bill it takes some time to play proficiently without constantly re ferring to the rule book. Robot Rascals is best used tor a family evening around ihe computer
or at a party where the players are familiar with the game.
Personality Plus You can offer your friends an evening1! en tertainment and semi them home with a twopagL* analysis of their personality by booting tip l.uscher Profile. Developed by Dr. Man Luscher, ibis Mindscape program is like an ink-bloi test on disk—and every bit as easy to use. The sevenpart test simply asks the subject to list shades of
gray in order of preference, or pick which of two colors is the mure attractive. The questions take only a ffiW minutes to complete, and then
the computer quickly compiles the answers and prints out an analysis.
For added fun, you can have everyone take the
players
games, now
we're
on
the
ilroderbund.
pulling out
subject
of personality
ihe software people, are
noncomputcr games as well.
Their Personal Preference is a board game in which players take turns guessing one another's
order of preference among four cards dealt onto the table. The game comes with 400 double sided cards, divided into four categories—people, fond and drink, activities and potpourri — and each
individually,
four-card hand comes from one of ibe categories. One player is "it" for each round, anil the closer
so old pros
ranking of the cards, the faster their pieces move
can't
rules to learn, and it can also be played by one
automatically
beat a newcomer."
the oilier players Lome to guessing his or her
around the board. Personal Preference has few person alone. Activision puts out Alter EgO, a computer pro
gram that can take you from the cradle to the grave. Versions are sold separately for male and female players of this three-disk game. No, make that "experience." This game is really a text pro
gram, where you assume a role and make choices
throughout the course of your life in that role. If it were a movie. Alter Ego would be PGrated. There arc adult situations, including one
in the male version where you meet this very attractive woman and she asks you up to her place, even though she notices the wedding band on your finger. You make the decision, and the story line continues from there. But re
member, your actions may precipitale undesir able consequences.
While Alter Kgo is geared
for one player,
there's nothing to keep several players from sil ting around the computer and making decisions
jointly, then watching the results. Players might take turns, each leading the character through one of the seven stages of life. It's a tall order, but to become really engrossed in Alter Kgo, you should set aside a four- or fivehour block of time to spend alone with it. You may be able to go from birth to death in one sitting, bul if not, the program can be saved between the major stages of life. At the close of an evening with my Alter Ego, I found myself making sad choices as my eyesight, Personal Preference lets others try to guess your tikes and dislikes.
lest and save the results to disk. Later, while
they're sitting around hypnotized by the televi sion, you can read the results and see if they can
matdb each analysis with the proper person. Mind Prober, from Human Edge Software,
produces a similar report, but it uses a different method to come up with ihe analysis. You pick
a person to evaluate, then have him or her leave the loom while ihe other players go through a
list of about five dozen adjectives and answer "agree" or "disagree." The result is usually a pretty accurate description of the person under the computer microscope—although the subject
will probably disagree. After all, few of us sec ourselves as Others do. K U N
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hearing and health failed. At the end. when the Great Sleep came. . .well, I'd rather not talk about it. Even a jaded old adventure-gamer like myself turned off his computer feeling a bii melancholy. Sex Drive for
Your Disk Drive As long as we're passing out movie ratings for computer games. Dr. Rulh's Game of Good Sex is definitely rated R. Surprisingly, this lively game comes from Avalon Hill, best-known for its highly
realistic (bul somewhat staid) war-simulation games.
Dr. Ruth figures the more the merrier, so up to seven players can be embarrassed at once.
They answer multiple-choice questions about sex, relationships and love. Quick answers gain
more points, and players familiar with ihe game
cards, incidentally, is placed face up in iron! of
can be handicapped l>y assigning them a shorter
you. Should a neighboring player spot that item first, he or she gels to pawn off a card on you,
answer time. Each game takes about 15 to 20
minutes to complete and includes a face-off
since you weren't watching closely enough.
round that pits the two high scorers against each
There are 94 game cards, covering such com
other.
monly commercialized items as hamburgers, hats, belts, babies, wheels, soda pop and cars.
A word of caution; Dr. Ruth"s questions are
frank. It would be wise to go through the game
a few times before asking Bob and Ted and Carol
The cleverly illustrated instruction booklet lists
and Alice over, just to make sure things aren't going i" get loo pcrsunal, So, the next lime your friends get together,
the finds that fall into the "legitimate," "stretch
ing ii" and "totally outrageous" classifications.
have them gather around the computer monitor.
a legitimate find for a carpet card. Stretching it would be calling a doormat a carpet. And out
For example, a throw rug or carpel would be
Tell them it's just like television, except it's in teractive. If that doesn't get tlicir attention, tell
rageous? A toupee (or scalp rug).
The Couch Potato Game, says the instruction
them the best part: There arc no commercial
booklet, "is not a VCR game, because we didn't
interruptions.
charge yon enough for it." To make it one. just
A Word from the Sponsor
record your own video. Doing this will also pro vide a variation on the game: trying to spot objects while fas t-forwar ding through the
Wait! Did I say commercials? If your guests
insist on an evening glued to the television, bring out The Couch l'otato Game from TDC Games.
commercials.
This is no computer game; you play it while you
This game does have some relationship to ihe
watch commercials. The idea is to spot in the
computer: After an hour or so of commercials,
commercials items pictured on the cards you're holding. The game comes complete with four
the most anticomputer person in ihe world will be gleeful at seeing 'SYNTAX ERROR on a pale
invitations printed on a television screen, and a
blue screen. â&#x2013;
final instruction suggests. "B.Y.O.B. (bring your
Lonnie Brown is an editorial writer am! oimpuler
own hicarbouaie)." When you find one of your objects in a com
columnist far a New York Timeymimed iiewapajirr in
Central Florida.
mercial, you toss away that card. One of your
Table 1. Manufacturers, prices and online services.
10th Frame
Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and
Access Software
Family Feud
Activision
#A 2561 South 1560 West
ShareData 7400 West Detroit St., Suite 170 Chandler, AZ 85226 $9.95 each
2350 Bayshore Parkway
Woods Cross, UT 84087
S39.95 Scrabble, Quizam,
Alter Ego
Mountain View, CA 94043
$49,95 Dr. Ruth's Game of Good Sex
Make Your Own Murder Party and
Luscher Profile
Avalon Hill Game Co.
Robot Rascals
Mindscape
Electronic Arts 1820 Gateway Drive
3-144 Dundee Rd. Nonhbrook, IL 60062
4517 Ilarford Rd Baltimore, MD 21214 S29.95
San Maieo, CA 94404
529.95
S32.95, $29.95. S39.95 and S39.'J5, respectively
The Couch Potato Game Mind Prober Human Edge Software
TDC Games
Party Quiz Game
No longer being marketed,
Suncom
Bloomingdale, IL 60108 S M.95
260 Holbrook Drive
but still in the "distribution pipeline," often ai
Wheeling. IL 60090
discount prices.
4N240 Cavalry Drive, Unit D
Persona] Preference
CompuServe PO Box 20212 5000 Arlington Centre Blvd.
Trivia Fever
Broderbund
Columbus, OH 43220
Professional Software
17 Paul Drive
No longer being marketed, but still in
San Riifae!, CA 94903
Quan tumLink
the "distribution pipeline," often at dis
$28,915
Quantum Computer Services
$29.95
count prices.
861!) Westwood Center Drive
Vienna, VA 22180
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The Tale Of the RAM And the Mouse Discover the available software that takes advantage of Commodore's 11AM expansion cartridges and proportional, mouse. COMMODORE'S
NEWEST
HARDWARE
op-
RAM
cariridge
disks,
direct
memory
access
lions, the 1700, 1750 and 17(Âť-1 RAM expansion
moves a series of screens from the expander into
cartridges and the 1351 mouse, make the C-64 and C-I2H easier to use and more productive. Do you really need one of these products? Prob ably not, but a number of software developers
screen memory at blazing speed. One screen
follows another so rapidly that the effect is like watching a movie.
arc betting that once you've seen them in action,
The 1700, 1750 and 1704 can all be accessed from either G-l or 128 mode on a C-128. They
you'll want them. In this ariicle, I'll describe these peripherals and survey the software being writ
C-128 and the C-64, and they share the same set
ten to use them.
of instructions.
COMMODORE'S RAM EXPANDERS
are visible al the same addresses in both the
Also, all three are physically much alike. The
RAM expansion cartridges appeal to Com modore owners conceptually. Add 2f)0K of RAM
major difference is the number of 64K memory banks each one holds. The 1700 holds 128K in two banks, the 17B0 holds ">12K in eight banks
to the C-64 or up to f>12K to the C-128 and you
and the 17(54 is in between with 'i.oGK in four
have one humongous Computer. Right?
banks.
Well. . . yes and no.
yourself, you must Specify which bank you want to store to or recall from.]
Commodore's memory expansion has more in common with disk storage than it docs with your Computer's resident RAM. You can
(When
programming
these
cartridges
Since the cartridges share power with the com
exchange
puter, the 1701 includes a beefed'Up replacement
blocks of memory between memory and a RAM
for the C"64*l limpwi isted power supply, If you'd
expander, which isn't terribly Interesting until
like a larger cartridge for your C-64 than the 1704 and you already own a beefed-up power supply, gel a 1750, open the case and clip out
you realize thai ihose memory transfers, using
direct memory access, occur at die rate of250,000 bytes per second. For comparison, the 1541 trans fers at about 256 bytes per second and the 1571 at about 3000.
Using demo programs found on Commodore's
the resistor marked R4. You can also install a
switch to disconnect die R4. A knowledgeable friend installed such a switch for me, so I can use my 17">0 with either a CO'! or a G128. *â&#x2013;
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Programming the HAM expansion cartridges
and activates only when ii's needed, '['hen il uses
is a nuisance unless you have Basic 7.0's Stash,
the RAM expansion's Swap command to move
Swap and Fetch commands. This is especially
memory-resident code into safe storage in the
true with the C-G4, which doesn't contain any
cartridge, does its own job and then swaps again,
commands you can use to access the cartridge
putting the original program back into place in
different registers In computer memory viaPeeks
computer memory. The program does make con tinuous use of 255 bytes of memory starting at
and Pokes. If you can't write your own programs
52992. an area that's little used. If you need that
to me the new cartridges, some interesting soft
space, you can select another address for the
ware already exists for that purpose.
RAMDOS interface before installing it.
from Basic, Instead, you have to write to ten
To make RAMDOStodisk copies, you must
RAMDOS Software
use Jim Buttcrfield's Kile Copy program (pro
One of these programs. Commodore's RAMDOS for the C-C4, works with the 176-1 cartridge
vided in the package), and you must rerun the RAMDOS program. Unfortunately, this solution
and comes on the demo disk with the cartridge! RAMDOS lets you assign ;i device number to the cartridge, so you tan use il as a disk drive. "Amaz
ing" best describes the speed at which this RAM
is less than satisfactory.
There arc several precautions you should heed in using RAMDOS. First, keep in mind thai any thing in RAM expansion disappears when the power disappears, so it's important to save files to disk often. Second, since a RAM disk doesn't
have a flashing light to indicate disk errors, al ways check to make sure jobs have been per formed correctly. Third, remember thai system resets performed
by
some programs change
RAMDOS's vectors, and some programs
may
overwrite its interface area in memory. If thai happens, your programs and data will remain in RAM expansion, but you won't be able to access
them. The only way you can get out of this
predicament requires reinstalling RAMDOS in memory.
My company, Brown Boxes, has adapted Com modore's RAMDOS for use with its battery-sup
ported cartridge, the Double Quick Brown Box. When using the Box, you can restore RAMDOS after a reset with two keystrokes, without having
to reload your files. You need an extender board with extra cartridge slots to use our product,
since it and the RAM expansion cartridge both occupy the expansion port. The 17M Ram Exjunsuin Unit for the C-64 ad
an exln 256K. for .< tolal of S20K.
Commodore-128 owners needn't feel ne glectedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Progressive Peripherals' RAMDOS 128, an English import, is available for (heir machine. RAMDOS 128 offers usenseleciable banks and duplicates disk drive operations. Also, it can be
recovered after a system reset and offers parti tioning of RAM expansion memory. Partitioning drive perfnnus: It will load a 100-block program
lets you use part of the cartridge as a RAM disk
from RAM disk into computer memory in aboul
and another pan for other dircctmemory-access
one second. It's also startling to see, for the first time, "2013 blocks free" at the end of your RAM
disk directory.
Unfortunately,
not
ail
programs recognize
A C-128 version of Commodore's RAMDOS should be along any day now. It'll probably be
yon can't use the RAM expansion cartridge with programs thai require all cartridges 10 he un plugged. Otherwise, the device is transparent
public domain libraries shortly thereafter.
when not in use.
RAMDOS manages to use a minimum of com puter memory by using the "now you see me,
RIV
and the disk drive.
programs can't be copied into RAMDOS. Also,
RAMDOS as a disk drive, and copy-prolcctcd
46
jobs, such as the screed'Switching demos I men tioned earlier. An extended Copy command per mits file copying between the RAMDOS 128disk
distributed through QuantumLink and Com modore BBSs and should appear in user's group API'UCATIONS SOFTWARE Since RAM disks don't duplicate the disk drive-
now you don't" technique. The disk drive emu
down to (he track and sector level, nor do they
lation program stores itself in the RAM cartridge
respond to direct-access disk commands, most
NOVEM11LK 1887
I'HOHXJRAI'ISKI) RV 1_\RRY DVSS
commercia] programs won't function with them. Such programs rely on pretty esoteric programming io speed up disk access, and even the sim plest machine language programs bypass some
of the Kcrnal routines for loading and saving, if only to shorten the program code. Professional Software and Digilal Solutions. however, have Incorporated versions of RAMDOS inlo Fleet System '1 and the Pocket series
of programs, respectively, to provide all the speed of a RAM disk. Fleet System'!, for the Cl 28, uses a RAM expan
sion cartridge for its word processor. It accepts the cartridge as device .1 after you've accessed the pro gram's formal function io prepare the RAM disk. Once sei up, the RAM disk uses all the normal file access commands.
Digital Solutions' Pocket Writer 2, Pocket Filer 2 and Pocket Planner 2 for the C-128 automatically configure an expansion cartridge as device 2, with
an empty directory listing showing 2045 blocks free
with the 17B0 or BIO blocks with the 1700.
For fast access, lioth Professional Software and
Digital Solutions suggest copying their dictio
nary and, in Fleet System's case, the thesaurus, inlo the RAM disk. This makes spell-checking about 33 percent faster and thesaurus accesses easier.
Documents can he saved and loaded in a sec ond OF less using the RAM disk. Copying Pocket
2's 546-block dictionary into ihe RAM disk takes only about one minute, but copying those 546
The 1700 lt.n-1 Expansion Unit adds 128K of RAM In your C-128, for a total of 256K.
blocks back to disk takes long enough to enjoy
a cup of coffee. RAM DOS applications aren't limited to RAM
expansion. Several graphics programs, including Basic H and GEOS, can use a cartridge's direct memory access to swap blocks of data. Several public domain terminal programs will soon be
able to use a cartridge for instantaneous storage of a lull communication buffer, so online time
isn't wasted saving the buffer contents to disk. (Although details aren't yet available, I'm told that a new version of Precision Software's Superbase will use a RAM expansion cartridge.)
Thk 1351 Mouse
The 1351 is a true proportional mouse for the C-64 and the CM 28, not just another joystick, as the 1350 mouse was. It's just as accurate and effective (with proper software) as the mice de signed for the Amiga and the Macintosh. Point
ing and clicking to specify what you lvant your computer to do is a natural, intuitive form of control, and it saves time you'd spend on search
ing through manuals for commands and typing in combinations of keys.
The 1351 inspires even more respect if you surrender to temptation and open the case. At its center you'll find a small ball resting on two metal rollers. When you move the mouse, you're
The 1750 Ram Expansion Unit increases the
actually moving the ball. Two windowed disks,
C-KB by SI2K, for a total of B40K.
one mounted on each roller, turn in response* NOVEMBER 1987
RUN
47
to 11 if bull's movement and interrupt rays of light
emitted by tiny diodes. Optical receptors register the pulses of light, which are then translated into signals read into registers in the computer. Soft
along the edge of a ruler. The mouse/joystick does offer good control for games and applica tions requiring fast, wide maneuvers or move ment in a straight line, and I expect new games
ware that recognizes those signals positions a
and applications that take advantage of this de
pointer on the computer screen accordingly. The
vice's unique characteristics will be appearing.
subjective experience, provided the software is
Digital Solutions'Pocket Writer 2, Pocket Plan ner 2 iind Pocket Filer 2 support the mouse by providing pulldown windows that remain invis
ible unless a mouse is in use and the mouse pointer is moved lo the top of the screen. The mouse performs the same functions with these programs as the keyboard does, and i('s handy both for the novice and for the expert who pre
fers the point-and-Click method of making choices.
The pull-down windows are especially helpful in creating more text area by eliminating the Help
screens, ['or rapid editing, you can use the mouse to scroll back and forth dmmgh documents, move the cursor, mark ranges and enter commands. What's
best about diis arrangement is that you can either use die mouse or ignore it. Graphics Graphics applications that offer mouse sup
port generally retain oilier forms of input, bin few mouse users willingly go back to them. Not even the heralded light pen, once considered the best choice for computer-aided design, offers
more accuracy, convenience and ease of use. So, it's no surprise that the Cadpak graphics pro
gram (from Abacus} and Flexidraw (from Ink well) come in updates that support the 1351. If Cadpak is your favorite design program, The 1351 Monsr jives jour C-64 or C-128 a orttonal mouse input device.
you're sure to enjoy it even more in its latest guise. New users, however, may find that some of tile features that work well with the keyboard
and the light pen arc unnecessary and confusing with the mouse. The Accupoint function, for example, which positions the cursor, requires an extra command after the mouse moves the cursor to the correct position. Note that when you use
well executed, is much like using your hand !o manually move the pointer. SOfTWAKE FOR THF MOUSE
available by the time you read this. Instant Music
lets you create musical compositions by using color and line, as well as perform what Electronic
out need for fine tuning. You can use the mouse
Arts calls "mouse jamming."
Commodore had the foresight to build a Joy stick mode into the 1351, and many joystickcontrolled programs (such as the Advanced OC1'
An Studio from Firebird) work nicely with it.
Unfortunately, the mouse/joystick may be too sensitive for games that require moving objects
through mazes and grids. If the program loop that checks the joystick switches is timed for very
mouse moves accurately and responsively with
to select, from a set of four pull-down windows, all the amenities you'd expect in an up-to-date graphics program. Unfortunately, if the pointer
isn't centered on the word you want, you get the wrong selection. Micro Aided Designs planned to offer modular options, including screen ani
mation, that would've had a set of function-keyselectable menus, but according to a spokesper
son, they're now planning to just sell out their
frequent repeats, the mouse's tiniest movements
stock of T.H.I.S. and the light pens.
are registered as a change of direction. You'll probably find it difficult to move your hand
package from Patcch requires neither a mouse
steadily enough unless you guide the mouse â&#x2013;
peripherals beyond a single disk drive, a printer and a monitor. T.H.I.S.,aC-128,40-column graphics program,
adds a mouse driver lo software previously dcsigned for a light pen. You can make one-pixel adjustments of the light pen cursor, but the
Electronic Arts uses that feeling of immediacy in its Instant Music program, which should be
KL'N
the mouse with Cadpak, you can't use any other
SOVKMI1KK 1UH7
Basic 8.0, a C-128, SOcolumn color graphics
nor a RAM expansion cartridge, but it uses both
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distribute your finished programs.
As an extension to Basic 7.0, Basic 8.0 lets you program graphics that were previously incon
thai comes with Basic 8.0 and uses the mouse as
Basic Paint, a hires multicolor paint program well as a joystick, demonstraies the power of Basic
ceivable on the C-128. As a novice, you can use the language's 53 new
8.0. It's the only paint program I've ever seen that
commands to create color graphics on the 80column screen, for twice the resolution of the normal 40 columns. You tan create three-dimen
Basic
sional Figures and mouse-driven programs with windows. There are commands
to
track
the
has a command for creating spheres. Although Paint
is
a
huge
program,
it
operates
smoothly even without RAM expansion. How ever, it's better with RAM expansion present. Power Mouse, the Mouse Toolbox, from Sumware Soft offers a simplistic approach lo pro
mouse, position pointers, define and control
gramming the 1351 mouse. It lets you create a
windows, and slash and fetch screen areas in the RAM expansion cartridge. Also, thanks to Basic 8.0's RunTime Module, you can freely
"mouse environment" with up to four prede fined windows for pulldown menus. The Tool box program creates a pointer sprite and supplies
the commands used in the program to track the mouse in Joystick or Proportional mode. The disk contains a Toolbox for the C-64 and one Table 1. Manufacturers and prices.
for [he C-128, plus a separate utility to convert
1700, 1750 and 1764 RAM
Cadpak
Expansion Cartridges
Abacus
Power Mouse is a clever program and less de manding than Basic 8, but it requires Basic pro
Commodore
$119.95, S199.95 and $149, respectively
the mouse environment to Proportional mode.
PO Box 7211
Grand Rapids. Ml 49510
C-64, $39.95; C-128, $59.95
1351 Mouse
T.H.I.S.
Commodore
Micro Aided Designs
$49.95
215 East Orangethorpe
PO Box 345 RAMDOS
Fullerton, CA 92632
Commodore
$25 without light pen;
With the 1764 RAM expansion
S85 with Flexidraw
cartridge
light pen
RAMDOS 128 Progressive Peripherals & Software
Basic 8.0
464 Kalamaih St.
PO Box 5208
Denver, CO 80204 $29.95
Somerset, NJ 08873 $39.95
Fleet System 4
Power Mouse, the Mouse
Professional Software 51 Fremont St.
Needham, MA 02194 $79.95
Patech Software, Inc.
Tool Box
Sum ware Soft 72 Pearl Si. S. Portland, ME 04106 S15
Pocket Writer 2, Pocket Filer 2 and
GEOS
Pocket Planner 2
Berkeley Softworks
Digital Solutions
2150Sh'attuck Ave.
2-30 Werthcim Court Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada L4B 1B9
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S59.95 each; Digital
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S29.95
gramming
skills,
and
I
find
the
GEOS, RAM expansion anil the 1351
RL'Si
mouse
seem made for each other. In fact, used together, they create a synergisiic effect GEOS theoretically makes the C-64 a more impressive and easier-to-use machine. However, if you've got a balky joystick that has to be held in two hands, the system loses a lot of appeal. With the 1351 mouse and RAM expansion, GEOS
lakes off and tlie.s. The mouse darts about with great accuracy, and the RAM expansion used as a second disk drive speeds up operation. CEOS lets you move the contents of your work disk into drive B (the RAM disk) as if drive B
were another 1541, but the speed of the transfer is remarkable. Applications pop onto the screen,
and the slow, hesilant page-scrolling of lengthy documents is gone. All the data GEOS needs is now in the RAM expansion, instantly available thanks to the speed of direct memory access.
The GEOS manual claims an improvement in loading and saving speed of ten to 100 times widia
RAM expansion cartridge. That figure makes the RAM expansion a pretty good investment. If you don't need the programs that support the RAM expansion cartridges and mouse now,
then perhaps you should wait before purchasing tile peripherals. However, il you use any of these programs on a regular basis, you'll find thai the hardware makes your work go fasier and better. As you can see, there are already many soft ware applications available for the Commodore RAM expansion cartridges and the 1351 mouse. These programs make a Commodore computer
more powerful, versatile and friendly than was
thought possible only a year or two ago. If this is any indication of what the next two years will bring, 1, for one, can't wail! ■
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64 DOS Shell Now C-64 users can have the equivalent of the useful 1571 DOS Shell that 0128 owners have been enjoyingfor some time.
0 By JOHN RYAN Commodore owners who have purchased the 1571 disk drive received with it a most useful and versatile disk utility—the 1571
DOS
(Disk
Operating
System)
Shell. Unfortunately, C-64 users were
out of luck, because the 1571 Shell works only in 128 mode. My answer to the problem is a C-64 DOS alternative, which t call the C-64 DOS Shell. (For ;i
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ynu operate the C4 DOS Shell primarily with the space bar ant! cursor and func
tion keys. The screen format and key functions perform almost identically to those of the 128 version, so if you're a
1571 DOS Shell user, you should feel right at home.
PREPARATIONS AND NOTES
system, and accessing it is as simple as
The 64 DOS Shell is a rather lengthy program, encompassing almost GK of machine language, so typing it in will
tapping the restore key. Keep in mind
take a few hours. 1 diink you'll find the
tion and displays the 64 DOS Shell main menu, which appears as follows:
effort well rewarded, however. After typing is completed, save the data state ments under any filename and then run 64 DOS Shell. It takes a few moments for Basic to poke the program into memory, but this
need be done only once. After the ready prompt, load and run the short, fiveline program in Listing 2. This program compresses the 64 DOS Shell program
to a small MI, object-file saved on disk.
that doing ihis while another program is running slops that program's execu
Disk Setup
Copy Files
Run a Program
Rename Files
Format a Disk
Delete Files
Clean up a Disk
Function Keys
Mode Selection
Directory
Use the cursor keys to move through the menu, highlighting the options. You select and execute your choice by press ing the space bar when the option you
drives "A" and "B". These are logical drives, meaning that they are controlled entirely from within the DOS Shell. You may assign devices 8, 9 or 10 to eidier the "A" or "11" drive. To change
the settings, simplv use the cursor keys and press the space bar. After you select the second drive, (lie program auto matically returns you to the main menu.
To get there without changing device numbers, press the stop key. Keep in mind that the 64 DOS Shell looks for a second drive, even when not accessing it. If it doesn't detect a second
drive on die serial bus, strange things may occur (see Error section, below). When using two drives, the 64 DOS
Once you've done this, you can load 64
want is highlighted. Then follow the
DOS Shell with LOAD '■fi1ename",8,l.
prompts as they appear. To exit the DOS Shell, press the stop key while in
Shell prompts you for the logical drive number you wish to use for an opera
the main menu. Disk SETUP-The 64 DOS Shell works
tion. Make that choice by using the cur
Type NEW and enter SYS S4500. The
program will then be installed into the operating system.
Getting Started The 64 DOS Shell program is vir tually transparent to the 64 operating 52
RUN
■
NOVEMUKR 10HT
Although two drives may be used at one
sor keys and space bar. As with mosl 64 DOS Shell operations, pressing the stop key Teturns you to the main menu or
time, dual drives (drive numbers 0 and 1)
verification menu, depending on the
are not supported. The 64 DOS Shell uses
option you are using at the time.
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Commodore's C-128 DOS Shell By TIM WALSH in your C-128's memory, exit to Basic
THE C-128 DOS SHELL is probably
with the Fl key, then press F8 to go
[he best disk utility developed to date
to the computer's machine language
for the C-128. When you need to copy
a variety of disk-based files quickly and effortlessly, rearrange files in a
i
•.:; :.r.i ■-.>■■■ : ■■'■
monitor, Next, enter "M 1900" and
k met
press return, and in the rightmost col umns of the screen you'll see the words
disk directory or restore a scratched
"C128 DOS Shell" and the version number you're using, followed by
file, you won't find many programs better suited for the job.
Dave Middle ton's name. Press M <re-
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ss i *;
A Brief History To understand a C-128 user's ap preciation of the DOS Shell, ii helps
turn> again to view [he contents of
1'. ■ ,^
location $1AO<), which is the Shell's
j.VI.u?.1^ !■.-■-",
starting address.
.j
v. ;•■•?.
to know die program's background
Now, exit the monitor by typing "X" <return>, then
and how it works. Fred Bowen, a key
developer of the C-128 who still enjoys employment at Commodore, recently related the following account of the Shell's history.
It was under development from late 1984 through early 1985, when Com
DOS Shall.
move about and highlight the menu
find a third-party Commodore disk drive dial objects to it.
To activate the Shell, place the demo
choices. Unlike most menu-driven programs, the C-128 DOS Shell re
sponds to the space bar instead of the
modore, caught up in die excitement
disk in your drive and turn your com
and anticipation of die C-I28's re
puter on; or, if the computer is already
return key when you're making menu selections, so highlight a selection and
lease, was testing and refining periph
on, just type "boot" and press the re
then press the space bar. When you're
erals and software to complement and
turn key. The program formats itself
enhance the computer's abilities.
to either a 40- or 80-column screen,
1'rogrLimmer Dave Middleton, un
so it doesn't matter which mode you're
ready to activate the selected opera tion, press F7. To change your file selection, press F5, or to reset ihc
der the watchful eye of Senior Pro
in. At a length of over 17K ((37 disk
menu, press the slop key.
grammer, Eric Cotton, was involved
blocks),
in writing die C-128 DOS Shell disk utility program when he abruptly left
enough to keep the 1571 busy for al
the scene at Commodore. Program
loaded, you're greeted with the state
mers Fred Bowen and Terry Ryan res
ment, "D.O.S. Shell on Fl Key."
cued the abandoned project, and by June of 1985 they had made it worthy of packaging—on a demo disk—with
the new 1571 disk drive. By making
the
program
is
substantial
TYPICAL APPLICATIONS
most 12 seconds as it loads. Once it's
Press Fl
1 typically use the DOS Shell for two purposes—copying files and reorder ing directories. Although I could copy
and you have seven sec
entire disks sector by sector with this
onds to press the space bar to select
program, I never use that option be
English as your language of choice for
cause there's a faster way—by select
this program available to every new 1571 user, Commodore shaped the way many thousands of C-128 owners
the program's menu. If you don't press the space bar soon enough, French,
lighting every file on the disk. In this
German and Italian options appear at
way, in less than five minutes I can
seven-second intervals. Unless you can
make an error-free copy of an entire
view dieir computer.
decipher prompts such as "Inserirc
disk containing a smorgasbord of Ba
Using the Shell Although the background of the
C-128 DOS Shell's development is in teresting, it's the program, not its story, that wins friends and influences people. You'll find instructions for us
54
return to the DOS
Shell by pressing Fl. Once in the Shell's menu, use the cursor keys to
Copying files with the C-128
ing the Kile Copy option and high
disco nuovo c premere spazio," don't
sic 2.0, Basic 7.0 and
press the space bar until (he program
guage program files, along with scores
cycles back to English.
of
After selecting a language, you're
word
processing,
machine lan database
and
spreadsheet files.
ations—everything from validating a
Copies of files can be made using one or two drives. Single-drive copies
ing it in the 1571 user's manual, but
disk to copying art entire disk to re arranging the order of the files in a
but there arc times when two swaps
you'll only learn its capabilities and
disk
arc
limitations through repeated use.
you're
if the
While the C-128 DOS Shell would
As mentioned above, the Shell is on the 1571's tesi/demo disk. Ii also accom panies the C-128D computer, which fea tures a built-in 1571 drive. Aldiough it's packaged for use with the 1571, it also works with die 1541, and I have yet to
DOS Shell had never been activated.
be a fantastic program if all it did was copy files, it's also invaluable tor re storing scratched files.Just activate the
RUN-
NOVEMBER I9H7
greeted by it menu of ten disk oper
directory. in
Bask
Press
Fl
7.0, just
again as
and
All the function keys revert to their
default definitions with
the excep
usually require only one disk swap, necessary.
tion of Fl, which places the DOS Shell
Shell, put the work disk in the drive
back in service.
and select the
To see where tlie program resides
Restore File option.
Ninety-nine times out of one hundred,
64
DOS
Run a Program—When you select this option, the drive reads the disk
directory and displays it in the directory window. You'll notice that this is only a partial listing. To display the rest of die
directory, use the cursor keys to scroll
you'll instantly retrieve a Basic pro
gram without a hitch.
The C-128 DOS Shell does have its
Pressing F7
will begin
the copy se
quence. Once the copy is complete, the main menu will reappear.
If only one drive is used, respond to the prompt as it asks you to insert eidier a "Source" or "Target" disk in the drive.
red arrow to die desired filename and
The program differs from
press the space bar. The filename dien ap
DOS Shell at this point in that you need
the
1571
change the selection, press F5. (The latter
to format a target disk before beginning this procedure.
two operations hold true for all of die 64 DOS Shell's selection processes.)
copy over 130 disk blocks. For files over
limitations. First of all, while it can
While this option runs most Basic and
copy many different files, it's not a substitute for a "disk cracker." Files
ML programs, you may experience problems with some ML programs. If
lhat save with nary a trace of copy
you can't get (he file to run, it probably
protection, such ;ts Newsroom graph
means that the program is trying to
ics, cannoi be copied properly using
occupy the same memory space as 64 DOS Shell.
the DOS Shell.
space bar and function keys, you may select one or several do/en files u» copy.
up or down. To select a program to run, move the
pears in reverse. To run it, press F7. To
Program Limitations
SHELL
The 64 DOS Shell won't allow you to
125 blocks, you may have to reinitialize die program. Also, the File Copy option will not reproduce relative files. Rename Files—This option will al
low you to rename a whole directory of files. Again, select from the directory listing the file you want to rename. A highlight bar appears and prompts you to enter a new filename. Do so and then
Next, while ii can restore many types of deleted files, you'll be hard
you to input a filename for the format
pressed to retrieve scratched program
As with most of the Shell's file opera
press return. Repeat diis process for as
files
tions, the program also asks you to ver
many files as you wish. But rename files
codes. For example, scratch a RUN
ify your selection prior to formatting a
Script program file, then try restoring
disk. To format the disk, enter a header
carefully; duplicating a filename will re sult in a File F.xists error.
it with (he DOS Shell. Very little, if any, of your file will be recovered.
a comma and a unique two-letter ID;
you to highlight and scratch files you
then press return. For example: "file name", "ID" (standard format) or "file
no longer need. Use F"> to deselect or
while the program is activated, all the
function key definitions are wiped ■_. i. When this happens, it's best to
name" (short format). By omitting the two-letter ID, you ac
with this option, since you can't restore
originally created
with
screen
Finally, if you press run-stop/restore
Format a Disk—This option prompts
name (16 characters or less in length),
Delete FiLES—This
option
allows
the stop key to abort. Pressing F7 begins the scratch operation. Be very careful
complish a short format that erases all
some scratched files with even the best
vaging '', unless you're sure you know
files
disk-restoring utility.
what you -e doing.
Whenever you use an ID, a full disk
reb, n the DOS Shell than to try sal
New Shell v>n the Horizon? Commodore iiay
have
miscalcu
and
renames
the
disk
header.
format will result.
Function Keys—This versatile op tion allows you to program any one of
Clean Up aDisk—Cleaning up a disk
the function keys by assigning Basic key
involves the Validate command. Once
words and short commands to the func
lated the C-128 DOS Shell's popularity
you've chosen the option, the validation
tion keys in the same manner as the
when they recently began shipping the
begins immediately, so be sure you have inserted a disk into the desired drive. Mode Selection—This option, for
C-128's Key command. Once you're into
1581
disk drive. They were quickly
swamped with
protests from C-128
users who discovered that no DOS Shell existed for the new S^-indl disk drive.
Commodore was caught off guard, primarily because of its own low regard for the C-128 DOS Shell. I'm told the program sees little use back at the home office for several reasons: because it uses the boot sector on its disk, because it resides in a section of memory popu
(he function key option, select Define Function Keys. Use the cursor to select
the key you want to define. If that key
1571 disk drive users only, allows you to toggle between 1541 and 1571 modes. This option can be useful within the
has already been programmed, the as
DOS Shell for formatting, copying pro
dow. Pressing the space bar will erase
grams, and so on. The selected mode
the prior definition, allowing you to
remains in effect until you resel the
enter the new assignment. If the key is
drives or select another mode. Use the
not already defined, you still need to
cursor and space bar to choose the de
press the space bar to begin entering
signment will appear in the input win
the definition. Pressing the stop key
sired mode. File Copy—This option allows you
aborts the procedure without changes.
lar with other programs and because it
to easily copy files from one disk to
redefines the function keys.
another. The option works best with two
Each key definition is limited to 30 characters, so use keyword abbrevia
Talks with our sources at Com modore lead us to believe that a DOS
diskdrives, although it may be used with
tions
one. (If you're using a 1571
line space.
in 1571
whenever possible
to conserve
Once you've entered
the
mode and get a Drivc-nol-Ready error,
line, press the return key or F7 lo pro
so we may sec one in the near fu
set the drive to 1541
cess it. Pressing the return key adds a
ture. With the 128 version for a tem plate, the result should border on
again.)
carriage return to the definition, while
If you enter the option with two disk drives, the Shell will ask you which drive you wish to copy from. From then on,
pressing F7 adds no carriage return.
ihe selected drive will be the "Source," while die second logical drive will be
The function keys will not work until you exit the Shell program, nor will they
the "Target" drive. Using the cursor,
work while you're in Quote mode. You I
Shell for the 1581
is in the works,
perfection. E RUNi Technical Editor Tim Walsh is
a die-hard DOS Sliell advocate.
mode and try
To enable the functions keys, select theEnable option from within the Shell.
NOVEMBER l'JB7
■
K U N
55
G4
DOS
SHELL
the drive thai is no! present, press the return key and then the Stop key twice
DOS Shell, try reinitializing the program.
ing the Disable option. VOU may also
to exii the Shell, Then reinitialize the
If you encounter an error that the program did not delect, the display may
"luni off" individual keys by entering tin' Define option, pressing the space
program by entering SYS ;i'!50(). For any Standard disk error. M DOS
scroll from the screen during directory access. If this ever occurs, press the snip
may disable the key* by tapping the run-
stopfrestore combination, or by select
bar and then pressing P7. This assigns a null value It) the key. Funcikm key definitions remain in effect until the
Shell displays the error in the message
key to return you to the main menu.
window. When this happens, you need
Also, remember Uiat once you set up
to press the space bar to get back lo the
program i.s reinitialized (see below).
main menu. I.ook at the light on your
the Shell for two disk drives, it will al ways look fur die second drive, whether
drive,
accessing il or not. If your screen seems
Directory—This option displays disk
Filename] in ihc directory window, No se
li
will
remain
green
{red on
Ifvlls) until you press the space bar.
to freeze ii]i, it's a good indication thai
The G'l DOS Shell protects llie area
-.{ drive is not turned on. You may reset
key lo exit.
in which it resides; however, a large
the DOS Shell for one-drive operation
Basic program might sneak some vari
by reinitializing the program.
ERRORS AND OTHER THINGS
able storage into the Shell's program area (34500-40859 decimal; $86CAS'.iraB hex). Keep this in mind when
do, then the 61 DOS Shell ran save you a
lection protess is available. Press the Stop
The (i'l DOS Shell was designed to be as user-friendly as possible, and it will catch almost any error you'll ever make.
However, to squeeze the program into
GK, I had 10 make certain trade-offs. A definite program -crasher is the Devicenot-Present error, which causes the program to freeze up and may also gar
ble the screen. To n«' out of it, turn on
If you do as much lilc maintenance as 1
lot of time and effort Have funl El
running or copying lai ge programs, for
yon may want to protect this area with the following statement:
John Ryan, an air traffic controller, u in
charge of computer-based instruction for hii
10 POKE 31, 44: POKE 52, 135: POKE 55, 44: 1'OKE 56, 135: CLR
action. An advanced machine language pro grammer, he is experienced on a number of computer FfStems, including, of course, the
If die restore key will not reactivate the
Commodore.
Listing 1. The B4 DOS Shell program.
10 PR1NT"{SHFT CLR)(HOME){CRSR DNJ12 2.11
CRSR KINS
RTs)IT TO READ
WILL
135
TAKE
,201,2,240,35,173
20
"(CRSR
DN)"SPC(13("PLE
30
ASE WAIT..." I=34500:X=0
:HEM*60 :HEH*154
140
M5
40 READ A:IF A=256 THEN 60 :RSH*44
I,A:I=I+1:X=XtA:GOTO
40
150
:REM*160
60 IF X<> 697524 TilEN PRINTSPC< 8)"(CRSH DMUCTRL 9)ERROR IN DATA
AD
AND
RUN
ML
LO
161,232,208,250,162,196,160 ,134,134,51,134,55
135,141,3,128,162
115
DATA
160
233,2,141,234,2,32,244
DATA
152,32,176,144,32,204,
205,242,2,240,3,76,81,136,3
:REM*112
,137,33,114,137,174,244,2,1
DATA 148,169,70,32,210,148,
:REM'205 240 DATA 189,0,167,133,159,162,
DATA
1,32,201,25 5,160,0,177,158, 32,210,255,174,244
8,7,189,0,169,197,159,240,6
:REM"160
205,200,2,240,3,76,202
DATA
,32,143,137,76 250
195
,157,0,160,76,18,136,24,173 ,246,2,109,239
:HEM*89
DATA
:REM*1
228,136,32,204,255,32,
123,137,32,2,145,238,244,2,
173,244,2,205,245
:REM«171
173,242,2,208,50,76,19
:REM*10
245 DATA 2,189,0,168,197,158,20
,137,32,164,137,174,241,2,3
:REM*31
:REH*42
DATA 0,160,32,59,137,32,151
89,0,166,133,15B
:REM*78
7 3,23 9,2,201,116 :REM«84 DATA 144,11,174,241,2,169,0
NOVl-.MIIl.R 1987
,13,145,169,0,157 235
46,169,66,32,210
2,15,145,144,8
190
:REM*221
150,32,210,148,32,231,
146,32,244,5 46,32,32,137,32
238,230,2,32,67,141,169,0,1 41,230,2,173,186 :REM*239
185
DATA
53,169,0,141,218,2,32,244,1
9,137,142,241 ,2,32,59,1 37,1
■
230
:REM + 21
170 DATA 232,142,218,2,32,202,1
180
:REM*2B
2,238,245,2,173,245,2,
2,244,146,169
}§2,$l-\42,22<!i,2
175
DATA
3,76,199,137,32
,60,160,3,32,189
RUN
,32,143,137,238,243
225
10,145,173,207,2,141,219,2,
:REM*228
:REM*190
:REM*5
255,32,25,139,173,53,3,240,
5 5,76,137,150,173,188,2,162
6,32,231,255,32
:REM'13B
DATA 32,183,255,208,6,32,14 3,137,76,114,136,32,204,255 ,32,123,137,32,2
:REM*55
201 ,2,240,8
DATA 133,204,169,0,32,144,2
215
:REM"28
165 DATA 98,150,32,106,150,32,1
:REM*231
130 DATA 255,169,1,174,180,2,16 0,5,32,186,255,32,192,255,9
SB
DATA
,168,104,170,104
,141,24,3,169,1
125
,162,1,32,198,255,160,0,32,
207,255,145,158
:REM*1
232,224,5,208,245,88,96,104
55,208,3,76,102,254,169,193
:REM'33
73,201,2,141,234,2,76,135,1
DATA 2,201,1,208,3,76,199,1 37,173,233,2,141,180,2,173,
120 DATA 88,32,234,255,32,225,2
2,15,145,142,243
210 DATA 2,32,59,137,32,114,137
157,0,166,165,159,157,0,169
:REM*38
0,189,7,155,157,4,120,
5,159,157,0,167,174,243,2,3
35,173,180,2,141
6,32,2,139,32,94
:REM'19
110 DATA 132,52,132,56,32,94,16 6,120,169,11,141,2,128,169,
:REM*32
10,148,32,231,146,32,244,14
:REM*1G6
105 DATA 141,238,2,162,0,157,0,
,18,136,174,245
205 DATA 2,165,158,157,0,166,16
220 DATA 145,174,245,2,165,158,
:REM*198
,2,141,235,2
2,201,116,176,12,141,2
155 DATA 32,210,255,169,62,32,2
SAVER":END
100 DATA 169,8,141,200,2,141,18 0,2,169,0,141,201,2,141,221
DATA
46,2,238,241,2,238,242,2,76
,146,169,58,32,210,1 48,1 74,
:REM*246
DNJNOW
200
:REM"159
DATA 180,2,205,200,2,240,15 ,173,201,2,141,233,2,173,20 0,2,141,234,2 :HEM*206 DATA 76,135,135,141,233,2,1
221,2,189,28,155
STATEMENTS";STOP
70 PRINT SPC(7|"iCRSR
12,147,32,110,145,32,1
20,145,144,3,76,199,137,173
DATA" :REM'1b2
50 POKE
DATA
255
DATA
:REH*4
3,240,3,76,191,136,32,
47,137,32,164,13 7,76,18,136
,169,74,32,210 260
DATA
:REM*93
148,174,221,2,189,28,1
55,32,210,255,96,32,244,146
Qmthtued on p. KM.
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Wordman Vie word is out: This vocabulary and spelling game is fun and educatkmalfor cdl.
0 By WILLIAM TUMBLESON fordraan, a computer game thai teaches vocab ulary and spelling skills, will
based
While Hangman
game,
make learning inn.
the
traditional
mistakes
on
produce a
fl II
picture of a character called "the wind-
1
man" rather than a gallows scene. Word
skills are developed not only by playing the game, bui by creating the word lists thai the game employs.
the word in this
screen directions make Wordman easy
picture?
lo use, yet it's flexible enough to meet
extensively to move around ihc screen, particularly in drawing the wordman
character. The disk directory is dis
played by a machine language routine. The Wordman menu screen offers six
Options: I) choose a word, 2) end ses sion/game, 3) creale/edil word file, â&#x2013; !)
load word file. 3) delete word file and <i) print word file. The options are ac cessed by typing their numbers and
ri
Can you guess
Extensive error-tr;ipping and on
a variety oi' instructional needs. The program uses the Kcrnal Plot routine
TT rr
list and asks you to enter a definition up to :iti characters long. The definition
appears at the bottom of the screen as
have a chance to change the definitions or add definitions if there were none
before. Then save the file under its pre
you type; then, after you press return,
vious name or a new one. If the latter,
it moves into the box just below the word. If you're satisfied with the defi
avoid an error.
nition, press return again; if not, press shift/return for a chance to change it. You can bypass entering a definition
for a particular wold by pressing the
pressing tile return key.
return key twice, Then a period, instead of a definition, will appear in the area
Creating a Word file
below the word. After you've finished
limit the filename to 13 characters to
Option 4 is used to load a word file. All you have to do is type the name of
the file you want and press return. If you don't know which file you want, or you're unsure of the spelling, you can
Before play can begin, ;u least one
your words and definitions, you must
type? and press return to view the disk directory. The filename.', in the direc tory include the WM -space prefix, but you don't need to type that when en
word file must be created and saved to
enter a filename for saving the list, then press return. The filename can be no
return to leave the directory. After the
disk, using Option 'i. Press :t and the return key at the menu, then indicate
you want to create a new word file by pressing C Next, type the number of winds you intend to put into the file,
press return and state whether defini tions will he included. A screen for typing in your words will follow. Type each one, and press return.
entering
all
more than IS characters long, because Wordman will automatically add the prefix WM, followed by a space, to it. When the file is safely on disk, the menu
tering the name of the file lo load. Press
file has loaded, the program goes back to the menu. Option 5 is for deleting a word file.
This lime you do have to include the
reappears.
[jrcfix when entering the filename. You
Otiikr File Operations
can use wild cards in the filenames, but be careful you don't accidentally delete
When you want to edit an existing
any files you wanted to keep. After typ
word list, choose option '.i at the menu, then press K, for edit, type the name of
ing the filename and pressing return, you must verify that the program should
gram will ask if they are okay, if not, they will be redisplayed for acceptance
the file you want to work on and press return. The file will load, and the pro
named. If not, you can reenler the file
or correction.
gram will take you through the list, one
Donoi use hyphenated words, Alter you have entered all your words, the pro
When you finish with your list, and
if you chose to include definitions, the program displays the first word in your 60
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word at a time. At each word, make any changes you
wish
and
press
return.
When you're done with ihe words, you'll
go ahead and delete the file you've name. Should you want to abort the deletion process altogether and go back to the menu, press return without en tering a filename.
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The pros may be the best, but
these players are definitely
the baddest. Presenting the Street Sports™ Series from Epyx. In Street Sports Basketball,
you'll shoot hoops in dingy alleys. Playgrounds. Parking lots. Occasionally, even the
suburbs (have fun dribIbting on the lawn). You'll pick
toughesrO players in
score—well, maybeit's
Team players and show-offs.There's guys who can shoot the eye
Sports Baseball. It's not going to be as simple as you thought to be the
the neighborhood. There's hot Shooters and slow dribblers.
time to take up bridge.
Introducing Street'
s it's lust to take a pass.
out of a needle at 20 feet. And
guys who couldn't sink one if they were sitting on the back board. Pass on the run. Get that big man on the inside. Let Joey pop 'em from the comers. This is . "~2 real street strategy. Take hook shot. A tip-in. Bounce the ball off the chainlink fence, then go for the basket. Or power through a slam dunk. But don't dribble in the oil slick. And for heavens sake, watch out for windows. Ifs not like any basketball game you've ever played on
a computer. But just like every basketball game you've ever ■■played for real.
"another hit.
Notice that uimtbody )tnt ifole tttond base. Funny. it wesheisa mimiteagor
Ifs bottom of the ninth.
Batter's 0 and 2. The
first on your block.
After all, you'll have to cope
with makeshift diamonds, bases made from spare tires and trashcans, bushes, rocks, even squealing cars. Not to mention 16 neighbor hood players. Each with their own personalities and skills in pitching, hitting and fielding. With the right combination, you could be the champs.
With the wrong combination, the chumps.
You'll pick the place. The
team. The positions. The1 strat egy And then, you'll be right in the middle of it all. With a split-screen view from above
and up close. It won't be easy But ifs right up
WORDMAN
Option (> prints ;i copy of the word file currently In memory, After you se
word. II (here is a definition, you can
guess another word. Once you've used
view it by pressing Fl.
all the words in the file, totals for the
lect this option, the program will ask you to confirm thai (hu Gle In memory
Type your first guess For a letter in
file are displayed, and the program asks
the wend. If you're right, the program
if you want to play again. If so, it takes
is indeed the one you want primed. Yon
will place the letter in its respective
you back lo the menu; if no!, it exils
can exclude definitions from the print out if you like.
position or positions in the line of equals signs. If you're wrong, the letter
to Basic.
Will be displayed near the top of the
ing option 2 in the menu. Your store
Playing Wordman
screen, as a reminder noi to try it again.
To play Wordman, choose option 1
Each
time
you make im
incorrect
You can also exit Wordman by select will be displayed, and you'll be askeci lo verify that you
want
to leave
the
utter loading ;i word file from disk. The
guess, part of the Wordman picture is
program. If you change your mind and
program will randomly select a word from die file and display a line of as
drawn. After seven incorrect guesses, a
say no, you'll return to the menu for
lone also sounds, and after ten, the
another round of. . .Wordman. S3
many equals signs as tliere are letters
word is shown along wiili the completed
in the word. The display will also in
picture of the wordman.
dicate how many words you've already used Out of the file and whether there's a definition available for the current
William
Every time you finish with a word,
Tumblaon developed this pro
gram to increase his (laughter's vocabulary
(he program goes hack to the menu, and you must choose option 1 again to
and computing skills, fie is a tompuler tech
95
T70
nician Jot Wang Laboratories.
Listing 1. Wurdmaii program.
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Color Hi-Res Graphics Draw in all 16 calms in 80-Column mode with this C-128 graphics utility.
0 By DANIEL MONTES A point is plotted at die given co ordinate. If another point is located
Tin- excellent Ultra Hi-Res pro gram by Louis Wallace and David Darus in ihc February
nearby, and if both points are involved
in the same character, they share the
and May 1986 issues of RUN gave lli"^ C-128 a set of commands for
last color defined. 3. UNPLOT (ERASE) A POINT:
high-resolution (640 x 200 pixels) drawing in 80-Column mode. How
SYS
UP,
XP.YR UP equals 4870; XP is the Xcoordinate of the point (0-255); and YP
ever, lliis mode won't lei you use all II)
is the V-coordinateofthe point (0-111).
C-128 colors simultaneously, To make
This command erases a polnl at ihe
this possible, I've wi iiu-n a graphics util ity called Color 1 II-Res Graphics, which does what you might call pseudo-hires
given coordinate,
giving
il
the same
drawing in 80-Column mode.
4. Draw a UN£ SYS DR.XD.YD.CD.
color as the background,
Color Hi-Res Graphics lets you define
DR equals 4873; XD is the destination
a new character and update the corre
sponding attribute address for thai character's position. The result: ;i 25(i
Various graphics created with the
X-coordinate of the line (0-255); YD is the destination Y-iooidinate oi ihe line
Color Hi-Rob program.
(0-111); and CD is die line color (0-15).
resolution graphics.
The program's
screen is displayed. You can use the
Every line is drawn using this method, First, the origin coordinates mini be set.
only limitation is thai it allows just one color inside each 8 x 8-pixel character.
Print command if printing oicvns out
usually by plotting a point al that lo
side the borders of the window, so a
cation. Then you must issue a Draw
Type in Listing I carefully and save
"black hole" won't appear in your hard
it. When you run it, a machine language
copy. After each command is issued, the cursor position for printing text or
command. The same rules for color /ones that apply to the Plot command arc applicable here. 11 this command is
numbers is preserved. All commands requiring parameters check the i ange of the parameters and
of 0,0 is used.
x 112-plxel frame with colorful high-
program called CHR.Graph is written to disk, Your own applications program can then load CHR-Graph with die Hl.nad command, Listing 2, a demon stration program, presents some ideas for applications programs. If you use other machine language
utilities with Color Hi-Res Graphics, make sure each Color Hi-Res command is used in bank-15 configuration. Also,
the pi symbol (ir| and all control char acters with a screen code higher dial)
Illegal Quantity error if
5. Undraw (ERASE] a LINE SYS UD,
your input is out of range. A list of the new commands follows:
XD,YD. UD equals 4876; XD is the des tination X-coordinate of the line (0-255); and YD is die destination Y-courdinate of the line (0-111).
produce an
1. Setup euresarka: SYS HR.XS.YS. IIR equals 4864; xs is the column num ber of the upper-left border of the hi res window (0—18); and YS is ihe row
(i:) won't appear in your listings until
number of the upper-left border of the
the original shapes and characters are
hires window ((1-11).
restored.
Nkw Commands
Color Hi-Res Graphics provides seven new drawing commands, They're acd-
ihe first encountered after die hires area has been defined, a default origin
The line between the last coordinates and ihe ones specified is erased.
6. Clear iii-RKs area: BSYS CS. CS equals 4879. All the shapes and characters are
This hi-res window can be placed any-
cleared, but the hi-rcs area is still intact.
where on the screen, as reflected in the ranges allowed for the coordinates. You can't see the window, since it's the same
7. RESTORE CHARACTER SHAl'ES: SYS
color as ihe background. Alter this rou
RS. KS equals -1882.
The character shapes are restored, and tlie entire screen is cleared.
valeil wilh a SYS command, followed by
tine is called, all ihe standard character
an address and any necessary parame
shapes are cleared from ihe window.
ters. The address of each command can
2. PLOT A POINT: SYS PL,XI'.YP.CP. PL
80-Column Memory Configuration
be given in either numeric or variable
equals 48fi7: XP is ihe X-coordinate of the point (0-255); YP is the Y-coordinateofthe point (0-111); and CP is the
signs by redefining the shapes of char acters instead of using lli-Rcs mode
form. See line 20 of the demonstration
program for an example of the latter. In this pscudohi-res mode, (he Ic-xt 70
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color of the point (0-15).
Color
Hi-Res
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1. SO0O0-S07CF. Video RAM—20(10
some others, so you can include lext with your graphics. Weir's how l calculated die number of characters available for redefinition, There is a total of 512 characters (25C> each tor upper- and lowercase). I sub
bytes used to display screen characters.
tracted 64 (the number of characters
ihis way because the shapes are stored in the 80-column chip's L6K KAM. Here's ;i brief outline of (he memory configuration of tliis chip:
of ilic corresponding video RAM, In
not modified), leaving '118, This allows for a 32 X 14-character window any where on tin1 screen, where you can pill ihe available shapes and characters, one
cluding character color, underlining
after the other.
2. S07D0-S07FF. 48 unused bytes. 3. $Q800-10FCF. Attribute RAM—a 2000-bjte area thai holds the attributes
The nei result is a "pseudo" hi-res
and flashing.
5. $2Q00-$SFFF. GHARRAM (charac
frame of 25(> x 112 pixels. Tiio frame occupies about one quarter of the
ter generator RAM |—an HK area where
screen, which
4. S0FDO-S1FFF. 48 unused bytes.
is
adequate
for many
applications. B
character shapes are defined.
in 80-Column mode, you can define
and characters can be modified. 1 pre
Characters and display them anywhere
served the first (i-l definitions, including
Daniel Monies is «n aeronautical engineer
on the screen by jusi poking them into
all the letters in uppercase, numbers
at a research institute in Argentina. Ik is aim president oj his lucal Commodore user's
video RAM. However, not all the shapes
0-9, all
group.
the
punctuation
marks and
Listing 1. Color Hi-Ros Graphics program.
10
REM COLOli HIRES GRAPHICS LOA DER
20 30
180
REM BY DANIEL MONTKS
:Ri:M*52
CK = 0:SCNCLR:1=RINT"READINC DA TA..."
190
:REM*10
KE I,A:CK=CK+A:NEXT :REM*192 IF CK<>82320 THEN PRINT"ERKO R
IN DATA
PRINT"PUT IVE
AND
THE
PRESS
DISK ANY
IN THE KEY
ATE CHR.GRAPH" 70
200
210
DR
,24,165,200,101,7,133,200,1 97,8,144,6,229,8
DATA
:Ri-]M'206
220
DATA
:REM*4
64,6,32,24 9,2 05 :REM*134 DATA 165,17,32,202,205,96,7
230
6,40,125,224,112,176,249,19 2,16, 176,245,32 :REM*60
CREATED":END :REM*7G
240
100 DATA 76,25,19,76,81,19,76,1 02,19,76,3,20,76,24,20,76,1 1,21,76,135,21,0
:REM'58
250
3,19,142,24,19
130
:REM*20
280
76,31,192,16,176,27,169,1 ,1 :REM*26
290
32,122,19,76,143
:REM-20
133.10.32.240.20 KIN
NOVKMIihK 1985
:REM*156
13 3,218,144,237 400
:R!JM*143
:REM»149
:REM*233
230,219,165,219,201,64
DATA
:REM*93
240,255,32,93,21,164,2
51,32,230,205,160,31,165,11 2,32,202,205,230
420
DATA
:REM'29
112,136,16,246,230,252
253,229,251,133,7,56,1
,165,112,208,222,96,164,251
65,254,229,252,133,8,16,11,
:REM*167
,32,249,205,165 :REM*207 430 DATA 241,160,31,32,202,205,
254,133,8,169,1,133,25
136,16,250,96,133,251,134,2
DATA
DATA
DATA
:REM*139
52,132,113,76
440
,133,201,165,201 DATA
:REM*13
208,6,165,200,197,7,14
DATA
133,201,165,250,240,5,
DATA
:REM*225
124,21,133,253,134,254
,132,113,72,165,236,133,142
253,240,89,24,165,200,
4..4.5..165,200,229,7,133,2 00,165,201,233,0 :REM*3 320
DATA
,164,251,24,32
410
,165,235,133,143
101,8,133,200,165,201,105,0
310
:REM*6 3
,144,229,96,133,112,166,252
164,252,165,253,133,25
,58,165,251,197 3 00
:REM*177
162,18,169,36,133,219,
8,32,204,205,169
0,32,122,19,165,7,197,8,144
4,112,176,10,169,0,133,119,
160 DATA 21,76,40,125,169,0,133 ,202,169,36,133,203,165,251 , 16 0,3,32,223,20 :REM*74 170 DATA 165,252,160,8,32,223,2 0,165,252,41,7,133,9,169,0,
DATA
56,165,252,22 9
150 DATA 76,143,21,32,109,21,22
DATA
32,204,205,232,169,0,133,21
19,160,0,132,250,132,2
32,254,56,165
140 DATA 96,32,109,21,224,112,1
33.119,32,122,19,176
38 0
.,165,254,133,252,134,253,1
,32,56,21,32,143,21,169,0,1
72
DATA
:REM*22
176,16,1 66,251
:REM*86
165,203,32,204,205,232,165,
202,76,204,205
6,16,250,24,165,218,105,16,
,32,222,106,32,11,21,32,159 ,200,16 9,64,3 2 ;REM*178
270
:REM*197
203,133,203,96,162,18,
DATA 169,0,133,119,32,41,20
00,132,201,165,253,197,251,
DATA 56,21,32,139,200,169,0
DATA
390 DATA 0,160,15,32,202,205,13
DATA 165,215,48,3,32,95,255
3 3,251 ,133,252
37 0
:REM+210
9.165.254.141.22
260
:REM*91
10,24,6,9,38,10,136,16
,2 48,24,165,9,101,202,1 33,2
,76,143,21,165,253,141,21,1
,176,87,224,12,176,83,141,2
DATA
02,165,10,101
118,21,169,1,133,119,3
76.228.32.118.21
:REM*191
172,21,19,132,251,172,
33,9,169,0,133 360
2,41 ,20,76,143,21 ,22 4,112,1
110 DATA 0,0,0,32,109,21,201,49
120
DATA
DATA
22,19,132,2 52,96,74,74,74,1
185,92,206,133,17,32,2
B0.P4864 TO P5527 :REM*86 80 IF DS<>0 THEN PRINT"DISK ERR OR:";DS$:STOP :REM*206
:REM*125
133,200,230,251,165,25
30,252,76,108,20 3 50
252,74,74,74,24,109,24
,2 49,205,16 4,113
DATA
0,240,5,198,252,76,108,20,2
DATA 205,165,119,240,56,165
16,205,41,224,5,17,133,17,1
PRINT"CHR.GRAPH
340
,19,170,32,240,255,164,6,32
CRE
30,251,76,108,20 :REM*139 DATA 165,252,197,254,240,31
5,114,208,2,37,115,72,32,25 4,20,104,3 2,202 :REM«124
168, 1 32,6,165
:REM'72
330
DATA 216,205,166,119,240,4,
"CHR.GRAPH",
90
GETKEY AS:BSAVE
TO
:REM*128
,251,74,74,74,24,109,23,19,
STATEMENTS":STOP :REM*174
60
198,252,76,170,20,230,252,2
165,251,41,7,168,185,1
15,32,2 54,20,3 2
40 FOR 1=4864 TO 5526:READ A:P0 50
DATA
08,206,133,114,73,255,133,1
:8EM"234
4 50
DATA
:REM*237
104,96,169,147,32,210,
255,76,98,255,166,143,164,1
42,24,76,2 40,255
:REM*87
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:REM'152
PRINTCHRSf19}CHRS(142|CHR$(1
49)TAB(25)"COLOR HIRES IN 80 COLUMNS"
:REM*180
CHART,2,2,"YOU NOW 0-COL. YOU
HAVE AH 8
HIRES SCREEN
CAN
DRAW
IN
IN WHICH
ALL
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:REM*36
100
:
110
CHAR1 ,30, 9, "RANDOM PATTERN'S
:REM*76
11 120 FOR 1=1
:REM*172 :REM*116
TO 350
130
SYS PL,256*RND(1>,112*RND<1
) ,1+15-RNDH )
:REM'190
140
NEXT
:REM*150
150 SLEEP
3TSYS
CS
:REM*4
160
:
:REM*136
170
CHAR1,30,9,"BUSINESS
GRAPHS
:REM'80
180 SYS PL,7,7,10 190
;REM*1G0
SYS DR,7,104,10:SYS
104,10 200
FOR
DR,248,
:REM*150
X=12
TO
236
STEP
32
:REM*248
210
CLci+1 5 + RND(1 ):HI = 20 + 70*R!JD
220
FOR XX»X TO
230 240
SYS SYS
250
NEXT:NEXT
(1 )
:REM*136 X+12
STEP 3 :REM*236
PL,XX,103,CL :REM*148 DR,XX,103-HI,CL:REM*106 :REM*254
260 SLEEP 3:SYS CS
:REM*115
270
:
:REM*247
280
CHAR1,29,9,"DESIGNING FOR F UN" :REM*53
290 FOR R=40 TO 0 STEP -10:SYS
From the author of Fontmaster II comes Fontmaster 128,
an enhanced version for the Commodore 128. This powerful word processor with its many different print
styles (fonts), turns your dot matrix printer into a more effectual tool. Term papers, newsletters, and foreign languages are just a few of its many applications. * Program disk with no protection - uses hardware key
* Supplement disk includes foreign language fonts
PL,41+R,40,1*R/10
:REM-157
FOR A=0 TO 2*(PI) /16
STEP (PI) :REM*147
310 SYS
DR,41-tR*COS(Al , 40 + R*SIN
(A),1+R/10
:REM-61
320 NEXT:NEXT
:REM*69
330 FOR X=5 TO 255 STEP 10
:REM*253
340 SYS PL,X,111,10 350 SYS DR,255,0,10 360 NEXT
:REM'1S5 :REM*!51 :REM*115 :REM*233
370
FOR 1=1
* 56 Fonts ready to use
3B0
SYS
* Font editor/creator included * On screen Font preview
|1),1<I
:REM'199
390
NEXT
:REM'145
* 80 column only
.
$69.95
* Supports more than 110 printers Commodore 126 is a registered trademark of Commodore Business Machines, Inc
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inc 3804 Arnold Rd. Sahna. Ks. 67401 (913) 827-0685
NOVEMBER 1987
Octa 9B on Reader Semca cnro
TO
200
PL,100+60*RND(1),38+RND
400 CHAR1.32,1,"(CTRL O)ENJOY1" :SLEEP
410
* Includes a 102,000 word Spell Checker
7-1
300
SYS
RS
4
:REM*163
:REM*221
EARTH
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Snowflake Get those snowshovels out—it's a winter wonderland in your C-128.
0 Program by IAN ADAM; Article by TIM WALSH I an Adam wrote the article thai originnlly accompanied iIil- Snowflake
128 program [Listing 1). Unfortu
nately, the original manuscript and disk vanished, and we can't contact Mr. Adam, who, according 10 his office col
leagues, is vacationing in "the islands." Rather Chan postpone publication of the program until Ian Adam can be
reached, your technical editor has un dertaken to write iliis documentation. A program without equal, Snowflake 128 lets you design snowflakes in 40Column mode on the C-128. Type it in,
using 128 Perfect Typist, and save it to disk before running it Next, run it and, afiei the introductory snowflake ap
Samplo scpoati from Snowfiake 128.
pears, try your hand at custom design
heir region, you can hold contests to
irees, m> inside and boot up Snowflake
ing snowflakes On the screen. A menu
sec who can design the most clegam
at the bottom of the screen lets you
snowflake. The prize could be a day off from shoveling.
128. And. us you're creating those lovely snowflakes, picture the RUN staff up in
print tliL-ni out on any Star Micronics
Of course, if you live in Hawaii or
t»r l'.pson-conipatible primer.
Snowflake 128 also has the advantage
Bermuda,
such
contests
aren't
white stuff, and try not to laugh. [S3
very
Of letting you enjoy the beauty of snow-
practical. In that case, on a warm Jan
flakes any lime ol tin." year, regardless
uary afternoon, when the tropical breezes are gently swaying the paim
of where you live. If you live in a snow-
New Hampshire, buried under tons of
Inn Adam has authored several programs fur RUN," Technical Editor Tim Walsh Spmdi days and nwifagl with roml>u!ers.
Listing 1. Snowflake 128 program.
0
REM
SNOWFLAKE
128
10
PRINT'MSIIFT CUU"
20
GOSUD
BY
IAN ADAM :REM*70 :HEM*0
1110,SETUP:GOSUB
700,D
110
INPUT M$:RETURN
:REM*28
120 NE=4:BG=RND|0)>.5 130 140
:REM*112
FOR 1=1 TO 4 :REM*104 SD(I) = INT[URND(0)*4)
EMO
:REM*14 0
30
DO
:REM*206
150
SP(I)=50*(RND[0)*I):REM*130
40
TRAP
:REM*62
160
SC(I)=C(RND[0)*5)
GOSUB 12
170
B=260-SP|I1 :IF
50 ON
70:GOSUB
80
INSTR("ACPQ",MS)
0,260,650,670
:REM*246
60 LOOP
:REM*240
70 CLR:GOSUB
1220:GOTO 30 :KEM*1 50
80 GRAPHIC 2,,23
:REM*204
S0
SPACEslC
PRINT"A AUTOMATIC{3 CUSTOM
100
FLAKE"
PRIMT"P )Q
CANCEL
THIS{2
ORDER(2
RUN-
SPACES
=230-8
:REM*90
SZ(I)=60+RND(0)*B
;REM*172
190
SV(I)=RND(0)*4
:REM*116
200
IF
SD(I)=1
THEN
•9
210
IF SD(I)=2 THEN BEGIN SV(I)=SZ(I)/{1
230
SY,
:REM*60
:REH*212 :REM*190
255 NEXT:GOTO 260
GRAPHIC
760
:REH*255
2,1,13:SCALE
800
270 280
PRINT"CUSTOM SNOWFLAKE PRINT"(CRSR
DNJDESCRIBE
PR INT"YOU
WANT ON
"
FOR
1,4:NS=0
I=-3
DRAW 320
FOR
330
TRAP PE
THE
:REM*135 EACH ARM: :REM*193
300 COLOR 310
DESI
:REH*255
SHAPES THAT" 290
1,999, :REM*43
GN"
:REM*248
220
SP(I)*SZ(I)>LA THEN SPII
250 BEND
SV(I)=SV[I) :REM*212
IF )=0
B
SPACEs)CH
:HEM*190 NOVhMllt.K I987
:R&1*54
B>140 THEil
180
:REM*208
OICE"; 76
:REM*134
240
TO 1=1
TO
:REM*207
3:LOCATE
:REM*251
TO
:REM*169
9
330:PRINT"(CRSR
tt"I
X+I,Y:
LA;0:NEXT
DN)SHA
:REM*187 ■
\ Your Computer A Video Studio!! Bring any video performance to life with VIDEO TITLE
SHOP'". This exceptional application lets you combine a computer and VCR to create title animations and graphics effects never before available in such an inexpensive, easyto-use program.
Whenever a presentation needs pizzaz, VIDEO TITLE SHOP makes it shine! It spices up any video production —
from multi-media shows to educational and training semi nars to product exhibitions. And of course, VIDEO TITLE SHOP turns home movies into hot-popcorn crowd-p leasers!
Superimpose text over artwork.
Add waves of colorful graphics by using MICBOPAINTER" PLUS.
Produce special effects like wipes, scrolls, fizzles, fades, and more!
Design borders and
choose from an array of font styles and sizes.
VERSATILE . . . AND REFRESHINGLY EASY TO USE • • • •
Use the enhanced design and editing options Create on the entire screen (no menu clutter) Import graphics for use as title backgrounds Control when and where art pens and colors are used • Chain screens together, a different effect on each, to design full-length Title Sequences
• Learn from the Introductory Demonstration (major features are shown on-screen). Available (or Atari"1 XE/XL, Commodore 64"712S" and Applewil Series computers. Visit your retailer or call 800-245-4525
{in California call 800-562-1112) for ordering information. Video Title Shop and Micro-painter are ttaOemaiks o( Intel demotions, Inc. Daissott 13 a registered trademark o1 InrclliC.v.jMrin Inc. :ol3B7 IntelliCroations, Inc. Alan is a regislorod trademark ol Alan Computers. Inc.
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Chaisworth, California 913H, (618) BB6-5922 Orcla 107 on Reader Sfrvicn earn
SNOWFLAKE 340 PRINT"1{2 SPACEs)CHEVRON":P RINT"2(2 SPACES)HEXAGON":PR
INT"3(2 SPACES)BRANCHES":PR INT"4(2 SPACEs)5TAR"
:REM'132
740 SV(1 )=25:SV(2}a50:SV(3)=2 :REM*134
750 SC(1)=4:SC[2)=4:EC{3)=2
:REM*177
350 PRINT"0(2 SPACEslFrNISHED": INPUT"ENTER
0
TO 4";D
360 SD(I)=D:IF D<1
THEN
O 490
:REM*97
I=9:GOT
M MIDDLE 0-260";A
:REM»79
380 SP(I)=ABS(A):IF A>280 THEN 376 :REM*247 390 PRINT"(CRSR DNJCOLOR OF THI 400
SHAPE,
1
INPUT"12
TO
4 7
16:"
:REM*18
14
15 ARE BEST
:REM*169
420 B=LA-SP(I):IF B>200 THEN 8= 400-B :REM*21 430 PRINT'MCRSR DN1SIZE, RANGE"
20"TO"B
INPUTL:SZ(I)=L:IF >B THEN
430
:REM*87
L<20 OR L :REM*103
450 ON D GOSUB 540,570,610,610
IF
780 FOR
X,Y
:REM-127
HEAD:NG=0 TO
H TO
:REM*71
810
FOR
SHAI'E = 1
820
L^SZ(SII) :LL=SV(S!I)
TO NS
840
COLOR
850
LOCATE
:REM*13
X.Y
;REM*161
860 LOCATE SP|SH);D 870 ON SD(SH)
:REM*75
GOSUB 900,930,102
0,1070
880 NEXT:NEXT 890 RETURN 900
DRAW
TO
D:DRAW
:REM*119 :REM*183
L;D*300:DRAW TO TO
L;D+120:DRAW
;D+60 910
DRAW TO
THEN
DRAW
540 INPUT"(CRSR DN}LENGT}I OF CH
990
DRAW TO L*3;D+60
:REM"49 930
:REM*7 :REM*225
1000
L=L*4:D=D2
550 SV(I)=ABS(A):IF A>B THEN 54 0 :REM«24 560 RETURN :REM*108 570 INPUT"(CRSR DN1GENERATION 1
1010
RETURN
630 SVtI)=A AND 640 RETURN 650 GRAPHIC 660
OPEN
3
1
670
GRAPHIC 0,1
660 MJ="HAPPY
690 END 700 NS=3:BG=1
720
TO LL:D = D + 60:GOSU(i
=D-300:DRAW
TO
DRAW
TO
B;D:DRAW
78
180
■ NOVhMBKtt 1987
DN1DATELINE:" :REM+211
1290 DATA"(3 SPACES)BAFFIN ND,
ISLA
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES" :REM«101
1300 DATA"(3 SPACEsIDECEMBER 25 , 1987" :REM*123 1310 DATA"(CTRL ORDER
OF
4}(CRSR DNJYOUR SNOWFLAKES
MOST" 1320
DATA"READY. ION
1330
IS
AL
:REM*87 DUE
TO
PRODUCT
LIMITATIONS,"
DATA"NO TWO WILL
:REM'205 BE
ALIKE.
:REM*243
1340 DATA"(CRSR GN CUSTOM
DN)YOU CAN FLAKES,
DESI
OR" :REM*189
1350 DATA"SELECT A RANDOM AVALA NCHE." :REM*119 1360
DATA"(CRSR AN BE
DN)SNOWFLAKES
C
DELIVERED TO AN" :REM«187
1370 DATA"EPSON/STAR PRINTER," 1380 DATA"TO CUT
COMPATIBLE :REM+251
OUT &
COLOR." :REM*121
1390
DATA"(CTRL S RETURN
2)(CRSR DN1PRES
FOR
SNOW..." :REH*137
1400 DATA"END OF MESSAGE." :REM*113
1410
DATA160,32,132,251,160,0,1 3 2,250,160,25,132,252,160, 0,185,157,11,32,210;REM*57
DATA255,200,192,9,208,245, 50,162,7,42,118,166
L+B;D*
:REM*17 7
:REM'166
1060
RETURN
1070
LOCATE
:REM'98 L;D-t60:WIDTH
1430
1080
FOR J=1
TO
LL:DRAW
TO
1090 NEXT
L*2;
50,144,2,230,251
1100
:REM-182
1110 GOSUB 1220 1120
WIDTH
1440
1:RETURN
DO:READ M$
8,252,208,196,96
LOOP
:REM*44
1460
FOR
:REM*144
1470
PRINT"(CTRL
,1
UNTIL LEFTS1MS,3)="EN
1160
READ A:POKE
,3 1480
:REM*96
I,A:NEXT
TO
LEN(MS)
:REM*3
9}*{CRSR
LF)(C
1490
:REM'23 5
PRINTMID$(H$,I,1);:J=4:NEX T
:REH*122
2981
:REM»197
1=1
TRL 0)";:SOUND1,60000,1,,,
:REM*18
D"
:REM*147
DATA27,65,8,13,10,27,75,64
1130 GOSUB 1460,MESSAGE:REM*104 1140
:REM*37
DATA181,166,32,210,255,202 ,16,248,198,253,208,217,19
1450
:REM*80
.-REM-230
DATA202,16,250,136,16,243,
169,7,170,56,101,250,133,2
2
:REM*214
SP(1)=55:SP(2)=40:SP(3)=250
R LI \
TO
:REM«76
SZ(1)^55:SZ(2)=200:SZ(3)=
1280 DATA"(CRSR
:REM*180 :REM'4
160,4 0,132,25 3,16 0,7,177,2
1050
1150 FOR 1=2900 TO 730
:REM*0
1420
;D+60:DRAK TO B;D*240
:REM*134
SD{1)=1:SD[2>=2:SD<3)=3 :REH-220
1=0 TO 4:READ C(I)
1260 NEXT:RETURN 1270 DATA2,4,7,14,15
:DRAW TO B;D+120:DRAW TO B
D+240rLCCATE L;D:DRAH TO L *2;D-tl20:LOCATE L*B;D
:REM*70
1250 FOR
B;D:REM*237
1030 NEXT:RETURN :REM*206 1040 DRAW TO L;D:DRAH TO B;D-60
:REM*50 SHOVELING!":GOSUB
1460
710
:REM«135
1040:D=Dt240:GOSUB 1040:D
0):SYS2900:PRINT#4:CLOSE4:R
ETURN
:REM-26
1240 G$=CHR$(7):PRINTGJ:REM*102
:REM*87
:REM*146
4,4,5:CMD4:PRINTCHR$(1
4,7 :REM*1SS
:REH*47
1020 FOR J = 1
:REM*104 :REM»54 :REM*18a
L;
L;D:RE
0
:REM*186
TO 3";A
COLOR 0,1:COLOR
1230 X=499:Y=400:LA=330
950 GOSUB 930 :REM*243 960 FOR D=D»300 TO D.300 STEP 6
NEXT
INPUT"1
L
:REM*79
GOSUB
620
TO
:REM*177
980
600 RETURN :REM'148 610 PRINT"(CRSR DM(REPETITION: HOW MANY OF THESE" rREM*20
TO
TURN
970
:REM*120 :REM*74
:REM*6
:REH*1 90 :REM*44
:REM»213
L<LL
:REM*94
580 SV(I)=L/(1-(A>1)} 590 L=L*3:SZ[I)=L
1220
:REM'245
:REM*167 :REM*22B
:REM*126
RND{0)-39)"'1#
LL;
LL;D+180:DRAW TO
D+240
940 L=L/4:D2=D
2";A
:REM*18B
:REM*245
490 NEXT
OR
:REM*8B
TO 25
1200 NEXT 1210 CHAR,0,24:RETURN
:REM*163
IF
EVHON";A
:REM*109
1,SC(SH)
RETURN
GOTO 760
1=1
1190 PRINTCHR$(27)"W(HOME)"TAB(
:REM*87
930
530
1180 FOR
:R£M*125
830 D=HE:B = r./2
920
OP Y/fJ";MI 520 BG=M$="Y"
STEP 6
3;I'90:DRAW TO LA;HE:N
470 LOCATE EP(I);D :REM*195 480 ON SD{I) GOSUB 900,930,1020 ,1070 :REH*103 500 IF NS = 0 THEN RETURN:REM'143 510 INPUT"ICRSR DN}SNOWY BACKDR
300
EXT
:REM*109
:REM*245
1=
0 :REM*91 790 COLOR 1,4 ;REM*139 800 FOR 1=0 TO 3:LOCATE X,Y:DRA
:REM«141 1,SC(I):LOCATE
1,2:FOR
":NEXT
460 LL=SV(I):D=0:B=L/2:NS=I:COL OR
BG THEN COLOR
INPUT MS
0 TO 24:CHAR,RND[0)*39,I,"*
:REM*163
)";A :REM*22S 410 6C(I)-i(A-1)AND 15)+!
4 40
760 GRAPHIC 1,1:SCALE 1,999,600
:REM*241
370 INPUT"{CRSR DNJDISTANCE FRO
S
:REM«238
770
:REM*1 14
1170
:REM"31 G$:J=81:RETURN :REM*227 ■
RUN it right: C-G4; C-128- printer
Superscript Solution Ifyour printer could not produce superscripts with R UN Script before,
it can do so now with this technique.
By CHARLES LEWIS One of (he* advantages of RUN
turn on the blank line above the first
Script, run's word processor
text line containing a footnote number.
For the C-64 and C-128 (March
Switch to Insert mode and use the space bar to insert spaces until the cursor is immediately above the number. Then type the number on die blank line.
and December 198(i issues), is
its provision Tor sending special for
matting commands to the printer, using macro characters. These characters art-
Now switch out of Insert mode, move
created by the Define Macros accessory
the cursor to the original number and
program to RUN Script (April 198G and
use the space bar to erase it. Don't use
January 1987 issues).
(he delete key, or you might change the
One application of this feature is print
margins and end up with the footnote
ing superscripts — characters raised above the baseline of the type, as in foot
number over a letter rather than over
note references. However, Define Macros can't produce superscripts if your print
RUN Script 64 users must bear in mind that if trie original number ap pears in the second line of text, after
a space.
er doesn't support superscripts and
subscripts, which is true of many letter quality printers and some of the less ex pensive dot matrix printers. When you need to print out a docu ment dial includes footnotes, this limi
the wraparound, enough spaces must document, use (be RUN Script dot com
be inserted to create a second blank
mands to set the margins as you nor
line, as below:
around this problem, however, using
mally would and to specify double spacing (i.e., .Isl). Now print out your document and proofread it. Be sure to read carefully so you'll catch everydiing you might want to change, because making any
RUN Script's option
changes later will be difficult.
tation is a real problem, because it leaves
no way to include the footnote reference numbers in the text. There is a way to print to disk
rather than to the printer. Printing your
document to disk will create a sequential
Once you're satisfied with the docu ment, press Fl and P to prim. Normally
file with blank lines between the text
you'd print to device 4 or 5, (he printer,
lines. When you read the file back into
but this time you must print to device
memory, the blank lines will appear on
8 or 9, the disk drive. When prompted
the screen, and you can use them lo set
for a filename, add ,w to the name (file-
up footnote reference numbers, using the procedure described below. The fi
name.w), so RUN Script won'i try to
nal primoui of your document will be
give you a File Not Found error. You'll
double-spaced, with the footnole num bers located in the intervening lines.
end up with a "printed" sequential file
This technique works with RUN Script
and virtually any printer.
read the file instead of writing it and
on disk. Now enter Fl and R to read the file
back into memory. If you're using RUN
1 2~ This is material that has been ihe manner
printed in
indicated. When it is 3 4-
printed, footnote!
will be located in the
right places.
Continue this process for each foot note number. Unless you have a lot of numbers in the text itself, you can save time by using the F2 search-and-rcplace function lo locate the original numbers. Once you've finished making the changes, move to the top of the docu ment and set the margins as follows: .lml.rml.ttnl.bml
right margins set properly. If you're us
the numbers included as normal num
These settings will keep RUN Script from changing the margins that were set when you printed to disk earlier. Now save the revised document and print it. The footnote numbers will be
ing RUN Script 64, the display won't
placed in their correct locations, above
bers in the text lines. Place each number immediately after the preceding letter
resemble
the text lines. ■
or punctuation mark; don't leave any
ever, diere will be a blank line between
space between. When you've finished entering the
each two display lines of text.
The Procedure To create the footnote numbers, first type in (he text of your document with
lLLUSTHAra) [IV RFC!AN DUN NICK
Script
128 and an HO-culumn screen,
the document will appear as it will print out—double-spaced, with the left and
the
printout,
because
the
screen is only 40 columns wide. How
Move the cursor to the carriage re
Charles Lewis is a high school English teacher. He programs computers and writes in his free time. NOVEMBER 1987
RUN
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geoWatch The Commodore 1351 mmse, Berkeley's geoPHnt Cable and the Tymac Connection all work with GEOS—to varying degrees. By MATTHEW STERN
I had Imped to review a new GEOS-
gram to copy the files on your GEOS
compatible education program ihis
boot disk to another disk. Backup is
month, but my computer system had
designed especially for this purpose.
printing
other ideas—both my 1541 disk drive
Berkeley's claim that it "speeds up your
and in) RGB monitor called in sick. 1
You can't boot (he copy, hut you can use ii lo restore the files back to your
depend od my computer a lot, so it's
boot disk, if necessary. You should al
frustrating when ii doesn't work right.
ways make a copy of the files on your
lo the printer slightly faster with the geoPrini cable than with my Cardco
bool disk before modifying them.
G + , but not much. (If the cable had a
With hardware problems on my mind, 1 decided 10 show you how to
avoid difficulties with the new Com modore 1351 Berkeley
mouse. I'll also review
Softworks'
first hardware
3.
Throw the old deskTop icon into
the trash can icon and copy the deskTop 1.3 icon to your boot disk. 4. Copy the Commodore 1351 driver
to turn the linefeed on or off.
The cable works well with my
files
flawlessly.
GEOS, As
for
priming process," my data seems to go
printer buffer on it, the story would In different.) If GEOS were the only program I used on my Commodore. 1 might be com
product, tile geol'rinl Cable, and dip
10 your bool disk, so it's the first input de
pletely satisfied with the geoPrint Ga
into die geoWatch mail bag fur infor mation From a reader on another GEOS-compatible printer Interface.
vice driver listed in your disk notepad.
5. Chiii GEOS and turn off your ma
ble. However, this is uol the case. Ebr example, 1 do word processing with
chine, then plug your 1351 mouse into port 1. (Never plug or unplug any pe ripherals while the computer is on.)
PaperClip II. Here, the documentation sheet leaves me completely on my own, and I've
two months ago, and so far, I've been
Then run GEOS. The 1351 driver will come up as the default, and your mouse
quite pleased with ii. It's very respon
will be ready to go.
found that I can't just choose parallel as my printer pon selection and stari printing. I first have in Initialize■ the user port by selecting KS-232 for printer
GEOS AND THK 1351 MOUSE I bought ray Commodore 1351 mouse
sive, and its sculpted case fits well in my hand. As you'd expect, the mouse's propor
tional movement helps me create better
Thk geoPrint Cable
So far, I've been generally impressed with Berkeley's software. However, 1 have reservations about their first hard
type and pressing the Print command, At tliis point, the file will preview on ihe screen, hut it slill won't print, so 1
ware release—the gcol'rini Cable. The cable arrived in my mailbox just
have to go hack and change the prinlei port to parallel and print again. This configuration routine is a kludge, but
keep one hand on the keys and move
as my three-year-old Cardco GardWC ■+■ interface decided 10 take an extended
Cable withPaperCHp 11.
geoPalnt piclnres, but I've also found dial its design helps me with geoWrite.
Instead of taking both hands off the keyboard 10 reach for the joystick, 1 can
it's the only way 1 can use the geoPrini The cable won't work at all
With
lite mouse with ihe other. Since I've used
convalescence. Since 1 was stuck with
other mouse-controlled machines like
out a printer interface, I decided to give
programs
(lie Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST,
the geoPrint Cable a try.
only lo device 4. Also, if your program
thai
send
printer
output
requires Commodore 1525/MPS-801
I'm accustomed to this technique and
The cable itself seems well made. It's
find it a more comfortable way to write.
six feet long, so your printer doesn't
printer commands and characters, for
I have only one warning about ihc 135] and GEOS: Don't use Ihe driver in.\ttitlnliiin Imigram imtiulfd until thl mOUSt!
have to be right next to your computer.
get il. The geol'rint Cable can't do 1525
There's a tnetal Centronics parallel printer connector at one end and a plastic Connector for Commodore's user poll at the other. The user porl Connector has a plastic tab, so it fits only one way and you can't accidentally stick it into your computer upside down. There's no interface box, so you
emulation.
Thai program has bug\ and some users
have told me it can render a GEOS hoot disk useless. A safer and easier way 10
configure GEOS for the 1351 is to copy the drivers to your boot disk, usinj; the
following procedure: /. Check the back of your
newer
don'i have to worry about any circuitry
GEOS disks (Writer's Workshop, geo-
falling on you, either. The geoPrint Cable roiues with a disk of primer drivers. You select the ap propriate driver for your printer and copy ii 10 your boot and work disks. A one-page sheet serves as the user's man ual, hut I didn't really need it to set
Tile, and so forth) lor the Commodore 1S6] mouse driver and dcskTop 1,3.
(These files are also available on QuanUimLlnk.) You need dc-skTop 1.3 to use
(he 1351; ihe mouse driver won't work with deskTop 1.2. 2. 1'lug your joystick into purl 1 and
up the cable with GEOS. There's no
boot GEOS. then use the Backup pro-
need to fiddle with switch settings, nor
11 N
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You can't use the cable with programs thai call fora modem,either,.since both
devices plug into the user port. There fore, you can't use your printer with geoDex and CUiamuml.ink. Whenever
you have the geoPrini Cable plugged in and need 10 use your modem, you
have to unplug the cable and plug in your modem Interface. Not only is this inconvenient, but it can wear out the user pori connectors.
The moPrim Cable's redeeming fea
tures are that it's easy to install, it works well with GEOS and it seems a little faster and more reliable than the av
erage
printer
interface.
However,
1
don't recommend it if you're an average
Commodore user, especially If you have serial primer interface with 8 buffer. An Interface Alternative
W
CHANNEL KOR DEVICE 4
last-minute
PRINT #1.CHR£(27)-W"CHRS(OO):
watching! ■
this short program to set up the nec essary configuration! 1
40 PRINT #].CHRS(27)"*G": REM LOCK
Hnkclry Sofizoorks' alternative opnating sfs-
INTO TRANSPARENT MODE
tem for the C-61 and C-128. Your questions and comments are welcome. Send them to:
2
Matthew Stern
COMING UP: GEOS Houday Shopping Guide
gcoWatch
RUN Magazine 80 Elm St.
Do you have a GEOS user on your
holiday shopping list, or do you want
PACE PROGRAM FOR GEOS
to drop some1 hints for yourself? Next month, I'll give you some suggestions
REM BY STEVEE4
for distinctly CEOS gifts. You'll find
RKM TYMAC CONNECTION INTER
Keep
the needs of RUN readers who use (ib'OS,
GEOS, and he explains that 10 use it, you need to "send some commands to
goodies.
Ihe monthly geoWalch column addresses
OFF AUTO LINEFEED
SieveE4 on Qu&ntumLink reports [hat iliis interface is compatible' with
take care of some defaults." Steve wrote
holiday
REM TURN OFF WiriTH DEFAULT 30 PRINT #l,CHR$<2~rL": REM TURN
One primer Interface you might want
10 consider is the Tymac Connection.
slocking stuffcrs, hooks, hardware and
10 OPEN l.-l: REM OPEN PRINTER
a modem. A better choice would be a
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Easy Applications Super Sort.- Sort your string, floating point or integer arrays
in the wink ofan eye. By MICHAEL BROUSSARD
If
you write Basic programs, sooner
of sorting arrays—lists of names, for example. My all-purpose sorter, called Super Sort, can be used as a Subroutine in your own programs to sort any type of array.
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Super Sort is short (only 332 bytes)
and fast, especially when lotting large numbers of Strings. In one lest 1 ran, Basic look nearly '29 minutes lo sort 600 Strings, while Super Sort did them in '11 seconds—42 limes faster than Basic! '['able 1 shows the relative speed of Su
i Si
■'
per Sort compared til Basic when sort
ing various lists of fi()0 elements. For a demonstration of Super Sort, type in the program in Listing I, using (>■! Perfect Typist. Be sure to save ;i copy to disk before you run it, because the program is sensitive to typing errors. A
■pa
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Line 100 is the important part of the program; it pokes the machine lan
guage Subroutine into the proper mem
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single mistake could lock up ihc com puter, and you'd lose the program.
0
a
or later you'll be faced with the chore
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1 i Pi ■'■>-..' ■—.
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ory locations. The Data statements
numbered 1000-1180 define the sub routine. To use the sun, these lines must be included in your own program.
Once it's been pokeil into memory,
sp
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(he sort is invoked with a SYS Statement like this:
::; 1
SYSSRT.X(l).100
SRT represents the starting address of the machine language subroutine (in either variable or numeric form]; X(l) means the sort should start with the first
element, of the array; and 100 indicates the number of elements in the array. To sort only part of the array, use a statement like ine following: SYSSRT.X(2I),10
This example would son elements 21-30.
ii should siarl with, because X and X(l) are different variables as far as Basic is
concerned. One is a single floating point variable, and the other is an array. Attempting to sort a nonarray value
For Super Sort to work properly, you
may corrupt other variables in your pro
iiiiisi specify which element of the array
gram, and even lock up the computer.
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siring should he the starting poinl for comparison. Fbr example,
Table 1. Speed comparison, in
SYSSHT,XS([|.100,3
Basic and Super Sort, sorting
specifics [hat the first loo elements »f array X$ ;ire to be sorted, beginning
lists of GOO elements.
with the third character of each string.
Any strings less than three' characters lung arc sorted to ihe beginning of the
array in arbitrary order. If you don't
specify a starting character position for
relocatable< You can place it anywhere in memory just by changing the value assigned toSRTon line 11)0. [ust hi' sure to use a memory location that doesn't interfere with Basic. To keep Super Son as short as pos
minutes and seconds, between
Element type
Basic
Super Sort
String
28:42
00:41
Floating Point
25:46
02:43
Integer
26:58
03:34
sible, 1 used many Subroutines that are
part of the C-64's Basic ROM. Tor this reason, the program will run only on a
C-64 (or a C-128 in 64 mode). It uses the following zero-page locations for temporary storage; 7, H, 21), 21, 25-32
the sort, Super Son defaults to the fust character. Hear in mind that the con
and 251-254. H
cept of starting position holds true only
for siring arrays. The following state ment will generate a syntax error, be
cause N is not a siring array:
Michael Broxaxard h n syslemi engineer
SYSSKT,N(l),100,2
for Stratus Computer, a
As a bonus, Super Sort is completely
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Listing 1. Super Sort program. 0 REM SORTER
PROGRAM BY M.
SSARD
EiROU
300
:READN:C=C*N:POKEK,N:NEXT
:REM*104
IF R
CO42632 IN DATA
THEN
SYS
320
PRINT"THE
330
ES ARE:" FOR K=1 TO 10
340
Y
"
SEE
STRING
SORT"
350
:
IF AS = "" THEN 140
360
:
TO
SEE
:
NEXT K
150 PRINT"(CRSR DNJTHE UNSORTED STRINGS ARE:" 160
FOR K = 1 TO 10 : READ X$(K) : PRINT TAB(10);X$(K) : NEX T
170 180
:REM-62
K
STRING
SYS SRT,XSd),10 :REM*28 PRINT"THE SORTED STRINGS AR
E:" 190 FOR
K=1
TO
0);X${K)
10
:
:
:REM*5<1 PRINT TAB(1
NEXT K
GETA$
:
IF
A$=""
Y
TO SEE
KE
THEN 350 :REM*101
:
A$=""
0);X$(K)
1000
DNJTHE UNSORTED
240 250
PRINT TAB(10);X%(K) K
SYS
SRT,X%(1),10
PRINT"THE
SORTED
260 FOR K-1 TO 10 : 0);X%(K) : NEXT
:
NEX
290
:
IF A$=""
PRINT"(CRSR
II II N
■
NEXT K
32,170,177,201
69,0,133,20,32
..131,174,32,170,177,132,2
NOVKMBEIl I'.IK7
41,176,233,165 1150
4,32,162,187,169 1160
,96,165,25,133,7
1170
133,253,165,252,13 3,254,16
5,7,208,2,198,8
:REM*10
data 136,177,251,164,2,32, 14 5,179,32,15,188,200,177,
253,133,2,136 1180
DATA
:I)EM*106
177,253,164,2,32,145,
179,169,1,208,209,32 :REM*238 2000
DATA HORSE,ZEBRA,GORILLA,C AT,AARDVARK,QUAIL,SNAKE,CO
W,DOG,HIPPOPOTAMUS:REM'201
2010 DATA 123, 45,
999,
789, 6,
456,
12345,
0,
-23
-1,1 :REM*25
2020
:REM*54
:REM*191
:REM*12
4,133,18,24,32,22,176
,165,98,240,208,208,202,20
DATA
1.23,
-46.443,
1060 DATA 165,26,133,8,165,251,
UNSORTED
DATA
0,177,251,133,2
0,133,21,165,21 :REM*72 1050 DATA 208,206,132,20,198,20 ,165,25,208,5,165,26,203,1
:REM*250
DATA 251,164,252,32,162,18 7,32,15,188,165,253,164,25
:REM*86
PRINT TAD(1 K :REM*95
:REM*66
DATA 72,177,253,145,251,10 ■1,1 4 5,253,200,1 96,53,14 4,2
:REM*81
'040 DATA 121,0,201,44,200,18,3
DNJTHE
,160,0,177,251
1140
:REM*67
2,14,76,55,164,32,131,174,
:REM*128
DATA 31,144,7,176,9,200,19 8,27,208,243,169,0,240,130
DATA 240,9,162,11,208,2,16
:REM*66
THEN 280
1130
:REM*107
...6.1.5..3.201,3,208,29,1
A
1,133,30,177,253,133,32,16
:REM*243
DATA 14,208,4,169,5,208,6, 169,2,208,2,169,3,133,53,3
:REM*232
DATA 253,133,31,200,177,25
4,20,177,29,209
DATA 32,253,174,32,139,176
:REM*100
FLOAT VALUES ARE:":REM*177 Hfi
PRINT TAB(1
:REM*144
DATA 133,27,197,20,144,186 ,56,229,20,133,27,200,177, 251,133,29,177
1120
:HEM'19
1030 DATA 128,176,241,132,25,13
270 PRINT"(CRSR DNJPRESS ANY KE Y TO SEE FLOAT NUMBER SORT" :REM*207 280 GETAJ
:
:
2,121,0,201,44
1020
53,144,4,177,253
1110
NEX
:REM+250 INTEGERS
HE:"
TO 10
1,255,240,12,165
1010
INTEGERS ARE:" :REM*166 230 FOR K=l TO 10 : READ X%(K) :
:
:REM-96
DATA 240,83,201,2,208,2,24 0,108,177,251,133,27,209,2
:REM'127
,133,251,132,252,165,13,20
THEN 210
T
K
410 FOR K=1
:REM*182
320 PRINT"(CRSR
PRINT TAB(10);X$(K)
E:"
INTEGER SORT" IF
: T
:REM*252
101,53,133,253,165,25
53,201,5,208,2
1100
DN)THE UNSORTED :REM*27 READ X$(KI
DATA
4,105,0,133,254,160,0,165,
WHICH CHARACT :REM*189
:REM*58
101,53,133,251,165,25
192,24,165,253 1090
SORT
390 SYS SRT,X$(1),10,N :REM*93 400 PRINT"TUE SORTED STRINGS AR
:REM*110 210 GETA$
INPUT"SORT ON
STRINGS ARE:" 380 FOR Kel TO 10 :
:REM*22
200 PRINT"{CRSR DN1PRESS ANY
KE
DATA
2,105,0,133,252,169,1,208,
:REM*19
370 PRINT"(CRSR
:REM*162
96,25,24,165,251 1080
:REM*207
DN)PRESS ANY
OFFSET
8,25,165,25,208,2,198,26,1
VALU
:REM*69 PRINT TAB(1
ER";N
:REM*18
:
NEXT
FLOAT
:REM»92
140 GETAS
:
:REM'221
SORTED
PRINT"{CRSR
:REM»134
TO
READ X(K)
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with broken tabs; and more. By DAVID BRADLEY
feature of the
Before you get out the Scotch (ape,
nskiiig for advice on using the Aproick 12C modem (from Aproick, 1071-A Avc-
TCM-1200H is its support of Bell 103/
go to your local hardware store and see
212 as well as CC1TT V.22JV.21. If you
if they have a modular-plug crimping
nida Aciiso, Camarillu, C.A 93010), but
ever spend time in a country that uses a CC1TT phone system, all you have to
just bought one of these tools, and it's
I'VE RECEIVED A NUMBER of letters
I haven't been able to help much, be cause I didn't have one. Now 1 finally do, and I've been checking it out. The Apnuck 12c is the same as the Volks
6480, and it's a fine modem, but ii sim ply doesn't work like any other modem on the market, so software support for it is sparse. Two public domain pro
Another
important
do is flip one DIP switch or send one
command, and you'll be ready to tele communicate. Watch for more infor mation about this gem of a modem in —Many people who are tired of hav ing to buffer incoming text and then
your area, write to Gemini Industries,
Muliiicrm, and STIR Terminal,
rectly to disk. I know of no terminal
sive, good-quality Hayes-compatible
300/1200 modem that will work with both a C-64 and a C-128 and also with
an Amiga or PC-10, check out the Mer cury modem from Computer Friends (14250 NW Science Park Drive, I'ort-
land, OR 97229). It sells for just $149 and is 100 percent Hayes-compatible. Computer Friends doesn't sell an RS-
232 interface for the C-64 and C128,
but Aprotek (address above) has a good one for just $39.95, plus S3 shipping and handling, 1 like the Aprotek inter face, because, in addition to providing an RS-2B2 port, it extends the user port. For some, this feature is very important. —Another inexpensive, good-quality
Hayes-compatible 300/1200 modem to use with a C-64 or C-128 is the TCM-
120011, from Trans Comm, Inc. (703
tion. One of the sweelest sounds I hear
now is the "click" of a secure telephone connection before 1 go online.
with ;i special boot program called 6-180 —If you're looking Cor an inexpen
a life saver! The model I got has a wirestripping section and a crimping seo
upcoming columns.
save it to disk have written in asking for a terminal program for the C-64 and C-128 that will let them save data di
grams I've recently found for the Apro tek 12C/Volk3 6480 are Multiierm 5.2,
tool and some modular outlet plugs. I
programs that will do this, because the interrupts that handle sending and re ceiving via the modem and the inter
rupts that handle writing to disk will lock each other up if they try to work at the same time.
The only solution to this problem I've found is to use a terminal program that sends an X-Off (stopping transmission
from the computer you're calling in most cases), then saves the information stored in the buffer, and then sends an X-On to continue the flow of incoming text. A commercial program that does ibis is Sixth Sense, and a public domain
program that does it is ThirdTerm. If this method won't work for you, the
If you can't Find one of these tools in
Inc., 215 Entin Rd.. Clifton, NJ 07014. By the way. the crimper and ten outlet plugs cost me less than S10.
Internal Modems? A lot of people have left me mail on Q-Link recently, including many who want to know the difference between
internal and external modems. I don't understand what has prompted all the
questions, because I don't know of any internal modems for the C-64 or the C-128. I do know (hat computers like (he PC-10 can be outfitted with an in ternal modem, and I know that some people have mounted modems inside their C-64s or 128s, but I'm aware of no production internal 04/128 modems.
In any case, you'll get [hesame quality from an internal or external modem. Most internal modems take power from
PF.T/CBM computers are capable of dumping information directly to disk. You'll need :\ PET, an IEF.F. disk drive (a Commodore 4040 or 8050, for ex
the computer, so you don't need to Find another wall outlet, but, depending on your system, it's possible (although un likely) that you'll need a stronger power
ample), an RS'232 modem, an Intel-
Unlike cnost Commodore-specific mo
Corn-type cable and an IntelCom-type
supply. One nice thing about an external mo
dems, this one doesn't stick out of the
terminal program.
dem is that you can use it on various
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user port and take up a lot of desk space. Instead, i( comes with a user port con
nector and a three-foot cable that goes into the back of the modem, so you can
keep it on top of your monitor or disk drive, or anywhere else within three feel
of the computer. The TCM-1200H also comes with eight LED indicators, plus eight DIP
Modem-Phone Line Security Disconnecting your modem from the
phone line during electrical storms is an excellent idea, but there is one bad side effect of (his constant plugging and Unplugging, The little tabs on the ends of the cable tend to break off, and it's
then all loo easy to accidentally pull the
switches on the back, so you can gel at
phone line out of the modem or the
them with ease. Most Hayes-compatible modems have the DIP switches inside,
usually
wall when you're online. Of course, this happens when you've down
under the front plate, so that making
loaded 99 percent of a 400-block file
changes requires opening the case.
from a pay System.
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machines, as long as you have the proper interface. An internal modem
for the PC-10 can be used with other IBM-compatibles, but not with a C-64 or C-128.
—In
my "Plugging Into Telecom
munications" article in last September's issue, I mentioned that Jo-Anne I'ark ot Toronto had made an interface that en abled her to use her Commodore 1670 modem with her Amiga. At that time, I didn't know of a company that sold such
a device, but now I do. LRA Enterprises (35615 Ave. D, Yucaipa, CA 92399) sells
one for $44.95. When ordering, lie sure
grams has its own strengths, and one
carries the I200C. and, if luit, whether a
to id! them if you want a male or female RS 232 connector on [he interface, and
can't be called generally superior to an
similar modem is available elsewhere.
other. Bull would like to hear what you
also like to know if the 12C is just another
make your check payable to Lawrence R. Anderson. —If you're looking for a VT100 ter minal emulator lor your C-64, an update lo [lie public domain Kim mi t
have to say. if you use any of these
matlem tike the Voiks 6480 (not compatible
programs, plea.sc write to tell me which
imth anything).
—Michael Gheu
one you prefer, and why. I'm also in terested in your experiences, good or
Riix;f.way, Ontario, CANADA
bad, with any of these programs. In a
program I mentioned in lasl April's col umn offers fiiis feature- When I wrote
few months, I'll tabulate and posl the
the April column, I though! the pro
the comments I receive.
results of my survey, as well as some of
gram already supported VT100, hut I
—Alex Dominguez has written in re
was mistaken; the current version at thai time was only a VT52 emulator.
sponse to a letter in the July issue from
—Prom pled by all the discussions I've
liVI I disk drive could be burned out if a user on his BUS bung up al tin: wrong
seen online about which filecoinpact-
I'd
Dennis McNelis, who asked whether his
ing program is best, I've done some
moment during a disk access. Mr.
experiments with Arc, Lynx and Library
Dominguez reports that a couple of his
(which I mentioned in the August issue).
friends had
T tested all three programs for creating
thoughtless users. He offers no solution
one (lie OUt of a 1 lit block program file
to (lie problem; he just urges users of
The Aprotek 12C is jusi like the Volks6480(asl mentioned above), and Aprotek no longer seems to have the 1200C any more. Another modem that's similar to the- 1200C is the TCM1200H, which I also mentioned above.
OI want to use my Racal-Vadic VA3451P modem with my C-I28, but
sum
BBSl to be responsible and neat the
I don't know where to get the RS-232C in terface. I need. It's an excellent modem, and I'd hate to replace it with one I probably wouldn't like as well, just because I can't get
BBS equipment as if it were their own.
an interface.
marizes my findings. As you can see, Lynx won hands down
Now on to this month's questions and
and a 74-block sequential file that in
cluded documentation. Table
1
their drives damaged by
for file-creation time. It beat Library by 6 minutes and 40 seconds and Arc by
On page 85 of the May issue o/RUN,
■> / saw an ad for the Aprotek I200C,
7 minutes.
Arc won in the compressing depart ment, reducing the file by 55 blocks. At 300 baud and using Punter protocol,
a
Hayes/Commodore-compatible
1200-
baud modem. It looked good, so I started saving up for it. Then, in the very next issue,
55 blocks equals 9.1fi minutes of down
Aprotek advertised another 1200-lmud mo
load lime. Using Arc and 300 baud, you
dem, the 12C. In addition to being Hayes/Commodorecompatible, the I200C was described as hav ing a built-in speaker find eight status LEDs, and supporting direct connects, autodial nnd
could download and break up the file
about 2 minutes and 20 seconds faster than you could with Lynx. However, at
1200 baud, that 35 blocks represents only 2.l> minutes of download lime. So, using 1200 baud and Lynx, you could
download and break up the file about ■1 minutes and 20 seconds faster than you could with Arc.
My opinion is thai each of these pro
autoanswer, and tonr/pulse switching. The 12C was described as easy to set up; sup
porting autoanswer and autodial, tone/pulse switching and direct connects; and packaged with the ComTerm 64 terminal software. I'd like to know whether Aprotek still
—Reynold Wong Pacific; Gkove, CA
AAprotek's
(address above) univer
sal RS-232 interface, which costs 539.95, should do ihcjob. To make sure, before you buy it, write Aprotek and describe your requirements to them.
Ql'm having trouble joining QLink. I called their 800 number {800-392-
8200) and ordered the S39.S0 package that includes a four-month membership and a Commodore 1660 modem, I charged it to my VISA card. Since then, I've receivedfour calls
from QLink. Each time they've told me that due to a computer error, they've lost my order. Is there any way to get the Q-Link software from another source, and, if so, h QLink worth the time, effort and money?
—Lloyd J. Robinson. Jr. TUSCALOOSA, AL
Tnbli: 1. Comparative performances of file-combining programs. Program
Starting
Ending
Elapsed
Block Size
Block Size
Time
Lynx XI
187
188
55
Arc 230
187
132
475
Library 9.0
187
187
455
A If you were to go oui and buy a Commodore 1660 or 1070 modem
from a dealer, you'd find the QLink software in it. That package would cost more than $39.8(1, but at least you'd have what you need. Mosl manufacturers of Commodore- > NOVKMBER ]*IB7
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baud. Disregard the 600 and 1200 choices
dem from your phone line and unplug
that appear," Can I ufigrmlf my modem la
your computer system from the wall. I
handle 12011 baud*
want toreemphaaize thai warning, Until
Qt.ink software also accompanies the Commodore B4C, but it's notworth buy ing another computer 10 gt-i ii.
—Glenn Corbexi"
I moved to Florida, I bad no idea how
VlSALIA, CA
many people suffer severe damage to their systems from lightning.
I 1 haven't seen that Lid, but I suspect
I think once you do get a modem and
Remember, besides questions, I ap
^ they s;iid the software included
software and get on Q-Link, you'll find
preciate
getting your comments and
it worth the lime, effort and money.
with the modem could handle 1200
Ql.ink is easy to use, and when you're jusl Starting OUI in the world of tele computing, the easier the better. Vou might consider gelling a 120(1-
constructive criticism about Telecom
baud, even though the modem ciinmil.
puting Workshop, ■
Regardless, 1 know of no way for you to upgrade yourMitey Mo io 1200 baud.
b.iud modem, such as the TCM-1200H, ;is Q-Link charges the same for 1200 as
are using, or intend to use, a (jimnuxlore com puterfor telecommunications. We inviteyou lo
Tips of the Month
it does for 300 baud. If you downloaded files for ten hours at 1200 baud, you'd
If you're new at telecomputing and
save about ;i() hours of plus lime, or
there arc things you don't know, don'l
abotil$108(30 x $5.60),overSOObaud.
be afraid of looking stupid—go ahead and ask for help. After all, everybody
I remember Ike ad saying it would luin-
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Besides,
if you
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don't ask, you're die one who loses out.
opthm of 1200 baud whci I'm .wiling up the
As I've mentioned in previous col
modem, but a mile in llw owner's mamuil says, "Miiey Mo can accommodate up to 300
your way, you should unplug your mo
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Resource Center The Resource Center responds to readers' requestsfor educational programs. By MARGARET MORABITO
SO MANY OF YOU have beer writing to the Resource Center, I haven't been
Table 1. Directories of the Resource Center Education Diske.
this month, I'm going to catch up ml
Volume I, Side li
able to answer all of you personally. So, 111v mail.
Spelling
Findword
Menu (Lexikos)
Cell Quiz.
I'houcemration
Graphic Math
a few months ago? 1 really want the public domain educational program) you of
Brain storm
One Col Math
Speller
Tictacarith
fered in the September and November 1986
Word Scrambler
Math Worksheet
QWhat happened to the disk I sent you
issues.
—Everyone
Volume I, Side 2:
Hometown, usa
Menu (23 math tutorials written by-
A This is the question I get most
Ricky Brewer for his junior high students)
often. The answer is that, since I
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Volume 2, Side I:
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bution project—mainly became 1 don't have [he equipment at home or the finances to support It,
Menu
USA Spell h
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48 Add Prob (part of a math scries
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Elem Add/Sub
Add Special Ed
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Subt 3 Digits
Guess My Number
a blank disk, on which I'd make a copy
Quick Check
Decimal Adds Dec Div-1361
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Tree Tutor
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Robot Math
cover duplication and mailing costs. This way, 1 can have the disks duplicated
Division Tutor
[■'tact Reduce
Homonyms
Averages
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Perceni Of
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Hardware Gallery Ifyou're in need ofextra screen dump capabilities or extra memory, then this column isforyoti! Compiled by BETH S. JALA
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program wants to be and sends il to [he proper location. Sinn- a special boo! utility activates
bit-mapped, high-resolution pictures, including sprites! Perhaps you've
whole picture lo print properly. You
though I it would be gre;it to modify
can crop a section of the picture and
the software-controlled write protect lab and lcis you reload the box with Other
such a picture if you could oul\ get it
save it to disk in normal (bit-map), Kuala
into a format that your drawing pro
or Doodle! format.
programs in less than one minute, you'll
gram could use.
probably develop a scries of disk files, each containing one or more programs that arc used together, The convenience of switching in
For a number of years, I've been bor
vertical, this makes it easy lo get the
You can enlarge or reduce the image
in either the X or Y plane by using the
rowing pictures from programs to cre
magnify option; you can choose to in
ate my own images. It involves a pretty
clude sprites in Ihe printout or file: and
thorough knowledge of machine lan guage programming and ihe inner
you can
stantly Irom one program 10 another can't be overstated, My DQliB usually
workings of your computer. Once you
Another [unction lets you specify a
contains the two programs that 1 use
locale the picture in memory, it has to
delay after every printed line lo keep
while
maintaining ihc
Com
be saved to disk and then modified so
you from overheating the print head.
puter
Society's Commodore
Bulletin
tlial it'll be loaded properly into the
You can even use Blowup to loud a
Boston
reverse the
picture by using
mirror imaging.
previously stored lext file. And, Blowup supports a wide variety of printers.
Board—a machine language lext editor
and a compiled disk utility program.
Theoretically, by selecting the warm-
I've also saved ibis particular configu
ration as ;i single disk file, which allows
start option after you capture the picture,
you can return to the main program at the point where you stopped it. The cold start option resets the computer to Basic.
nit- to empty the box for use as a crash
proof Basic workspace and easily re stores my Utility programs when il's time to work on the BBS.
Sounds like a pretty dandy program,
doesn't it? If everyone followed
The documentation provides step-by-
the
and
same programming techniques, it prob
fairly thorough guidance for experi enced programmers who want to plant
do its job effectively every time. How
step
instructions
for beginners
ably would be possible for illowup lo ever, programmers seldom do things
some of their own ideas in the box's
the same way each lime, and that can result in some conflicts.
CMOS memory chips.
With a one-year repair or replace ment warranty and a 30-day uncondi
Some of the problems I encountered include an inability to capture a picture-
tional re&Uld period, the Double (^iiick Brown Box is one ofthe safest computer
investments you can make. (Ihwim BoXBS, Inc.. 26 Qmcord lid., Bedford, MA 01730; $69ptu> $3 shipping.)
—John Phemack Lexington, MA
Blowup
B
You can do a lot of maneuvering with Blowup.
on many programs in be affected when Blowup was activated and not all pro
drawing program. If you can't find a
grams operated correctly, if at all, after interrupting them with Blowup. The in structions include some possible solu tions for these problems, hut they didn'l clear the difficulty in al! cases. Yon con
separate picture file on the disk and the
program won't let you break ii once it's been started, you'll never be able lo get at the picture. With Blowup, you don't
have those problems,
D<m't Ij-I Ihc Name
You begin by inserting Blowup in the memory expansion port of your com
OfThis Product Deceive You.1 Honestly, would you plug anything into your computer (hat's called Blowup? Surely, it wouldn't rrtdly terminate the computer! Actually, Blowup is a nifty utility cartridge thai just might he of use to you—read on!
on the screen while disk loading was siill in progress. I also found the sound
end up with a locked keyboard or other problems. It appears that Blowup comes about
puter. Il doesn't work in 128 mode, and that's no! made clear in ihe instruction
us close lo being a universal "screen
manual. Tlun's not too much of a re
erally pleased with the results and cer
striction, though, since a lol of pro
grams that employ pretty graphics run in 6'1 mode anyway.
Next, you load whatever program you
want to capture a picture from. You do
dump" as technology permits. I was gen tainly don't
mind having a tool that
eliminates the need for me lo perform computer gymnastics just to play with a high-resolution picture.
I've graded this program sligluly be
everything jus! as you would without
low excellent due to ihe omission of
Blowup tomes as a program cartridge
Blowup inserted. Slice the Blowup pro
rather than as a disk. That's important
gram has its own memory, it shouldn't
to
interfere with the main program.
in addition. 1 think a shon paragraph describing the problems you can en counter with some programs would also
its
operation,
as you'll soon
see.
Blowup simply sits in your computer's expansion pint and waits for yon in
push the billion on Its top. When you do. it gratis control of the machine and lets you do some very special things. Have you ever wanted to obtain a
Once your program has finished loading, whenever you see a picture on the screen that you want !o save, just hit tin1 button and lei Blowup lake con trol. A detailed menu appears on the screen that lets you do several things.
information on using it with the C-128.
be appropriate> If you like to play with graphics or have a need lo capture pictures for use elsewhere, consider Blowup as a good Utility cartridge to have. (Data Slum; Inc.,
printed copy of the screen from one of
You can print the picture in either nor
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1U0
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—Jim GRUBBS
Springfield, ii. ■
Learn To Walk
Before You RUN We receive many letters from new Commodore owners warn to type in program listings from RUN and need help In getting started. To answer many of the questions
novice users have, we present the following guidelines. 1. First, keep in mind that as a beginner yon should enter only short Basic programs. Avoid machine language list ings and lengthy Bnsic programs until you get the hang
of what you're doing. 2. To help you catch mistakes in Typing in listings, we publish two checksum programs each month, railed (!■!
Perfect Typist and 128 Perfect Typist. (Follow the direc tions in How To Type RUN Listings, elsewhere in ihh issue.) 3. If you intend to save [he program you're typing in on a brand new disk, you must format that disk. To do this,
insert the disk in your drive and type: OPENISAIS <prcss rcturn>
PRINTl*18,"N0:NAME,#lT <prcss reiurn>
The ## is a two-character identifier thai can be any
combination of letters or digits. NAME can be any title
for the disk that you choose, as long as it's 16 characters
or less. After entering (lie above lines, wait for a few minutes
while the disk spins inside the drive. When the disk stops, the formatting is done. Then type: CLOSEIS <pr«s rctnrn>
!n 128 mode on a C-128, you can shorten this procedure by typing: HEADER "NAME,##" <press return>
Cuutkm: The formatting process erases any material already on the disk, so if you're formatting a used disk, make sure it doesn't contain any programs you w;inl to keep. See item I 1 below, on reading the disk directory, if you need to Intel out what's on the disk.
4. Before you start typing in a program listing, your computer's memory needs to be empty. To make sine it is, turn the computer off, wail a few seconds, and turn it on again.
5. As you type in the listing, remember to press the return key after each line. The return enters the line into memory.
6. If you want to review what you've entered, type LIST and press the return key; all die lines you've entered will scroll by. You can slow the scrolling on (he C-£H by holding down the control key, and on the C-128 by pressing the no scroll key. To view certain specific lines, type LIST,
followed by the line numbers you want; then press the
portion and press return to enter the new line in memory.
8. Be sure to save the program to disk fairly often during the typing process. Otherwise, you could lose all your
work if a power glitch wipes oul your computer's memory. To save a partial or complete Basic program listing, type: SAVE "NAME",8 <pres» return>
In 128 mode on a C-128, you can press F5, lype in NAME and press the return key. Mere, NAME is ihe filename you want the program to have, not the disk name you used when formatting.
Each time you save a revised program you must change its filename, or a disk even if only one character is changed. vary the filename is by adding version
to ihe same disk, error will occur, An easy way to numbers to the
end of the basic name (Program.1 and l'rogram.2, for example). The numbers will also tell you which version is the latest.
9. If you wish to erase (scratch) unwanted programs from a disk, type: OPEN15A15 <press reiurn> PRINTS 1 .V'Sftfilenaiin;" <prcss return and vi.iil a Few scconds>
CLOSEIS <prtss reuirn>
In 128 mode on a C-128. you can type: SCRATCH "NAME" <press reiurn> Be sure not to erase the final version!
10. Always save the final version of a program to two disks,
so you have a backup copy in case one of (he disks gets damaged. When saving to two different disks, you can use tile same program name in each case.
11. To view a complete list of the filenames on a disk (i.e., read the disk directory], lype: LOAD "J",8 <press return> LIST
In 128 mode on a C-128, you can just press F3. 12. When you know whai program you want to load, nexl make sure you know exiicllf how its filename is spelled in
the disk directory, including punctuation, special charac ters and spaces. A mistake in the filename will keep the load from working.
If tile disk director)- is still on the screen when you enter the Load command, you can refer to that for the spelling. If die directory will be gone from the screen by the time you enter the Load command, jot down the exact spelling
of the filename for reference. Once you're sure of the filename, lead the program by typing:
return key. For example, LIST 10-50 displays lines 10 through 50, and LIST 20 displays only line 20.
LOAD "NAME'\8 <[>ress retiirn>
7. If you find an error in a line, delete the incorrect characters with the inscrtdeleie key, then retype that
the filename and press the return key.
In 128 mode on a C-128, you can just press F2, type in
13. Aftei you've loaded the program, enter RUN louse it. ■
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Commodore Clinic What happens to a program when it's abandoned l>y its vendor, and, how can you use a laser printer with your Commodore? By JIM STRASMA
HARDWARE Art (here any 1511-compatible, nonCommodOTt disk drives on the market
gether ii church packagefor the C-64.1 would
user's group? Thai will both benefit
appreciate your sending me any information
those who still need the program and
available regarding thai software.
—STACY Hall
possibly bring in added income as those who cops it send donations.
yet, mid will the 1581 work with both the C-64 and C-I2S?
Gray Goukt, sc
—Ronald Pack
Unfortunately, sales oFThe Electric
Ql titett a program that will list about album title, song title, composer, orchestra
1 certainly haven't heard of any
Evangelisi didn't match expecta tions, and the author who was io provide support no longerhas a C-64. Therefore,
1571-compatible disk drives yet
we no longer sell the program.
Aurora, CO
;imi wouldn'l expect to for a while. Kvcn
for Commodore, the 1571 provided
many design challenges whose snlu[ions will take some time i<> reverse-
300 phonograph albums by publisher, anil Conductor, !)•■' you know of any software that can do this?
Those who have The Electric Evan-
—wadf. Jordan
gelisi are welcome to share ii with others for non-COmmerclfl] use. 1 have also
Macon. GA
given our remaining copies to my local
If you Healed each song as a sep
engineer, As for the new [581 microfloppy disk
user's group (S.O.S.U.G., PO Box 6108, Macorab, CL 61455), which will be happy
arate entry, almost any commer cial data manager would meet your
drive, yes. ii works with both iheC-(M and
tu provide copies. Contact them di rectly for details.
age on most Commodore disks long
the C-128, adding storage space to both.
needs. However, you'd run out of stor before you'd saved all of your data.
Ql've read that Commodore is developing
Ql'm
A better solution is to use a relational looking for a C-64 program that
data manager, such as Precision Soft
a new ROM chip for the 1571 disk
n program that tame with an Ediimtite light
ware's Superbase (sold by Progressive Peripherals, 464 Kalamatb St.. Denver.
drive. Is tliit chili available \et, and if so,
pen. I bought the light pen about five years
CO 80204). That way you can have an
where tan I get one?
ago, anil now the milker is out of business.
entry for each album in one data file.
can save to disk pictures I drmv with
—Raymond Hvman
—KO1.MAN GUCRSBERG
427 WdODLAWN AVE. GUENCOE. IL 60022
Philadelphia. PA
A A ROM that upgrades ihe 1571's performance is indeed now avail able, I gol mine today, thanks to a group purchase l>y the Fox Valley frl Users Group. The pan number of the new Chip is 31066'J'OB, With that informa
tion, any authorized Commodore ser vice tenter slimild he ahlc to order one for you.
FbX Valley lists it as available Irom
Microtech, :)2H W. Hillside, N. Aurora, 11.60542; phone 313-892-3551. The up
with a separate entry in a second related filr for each song on the album. The
information shared by all ihe songs on an album is entered only once. (De
The program you want is Periph eral Vision, from i'liun ehousi-, the
pending on the number of songs pur
company thai made your light pen. The
abbreviations to get all your data on a
last address 1 have for them is PO Box
1541 data disk.)
8470, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; phone 919-967-0881.
album, you may siill need to use some
I've included your full address in ense
, ■ Can yon recommend a laser printer for
tin- program is still available from a siiurcc willing to contact you or other
* tae with our l'lns/4 and 6IC com/niters? What inieipues would lie rei/uired
readers have copies they'd be willing to
for small-imsineu taeJ
—Paul Hm.
pass on.
Lancaster, fa
graded ROM was also listed in a recent
It's incorrect to assume that a product
ad from K. Boufal Consulting Sen ices
is abandoned by its authors merely he-
(24-1
PA
lause the vendor is out of business. On
19147), so you won't have to go far to
the other hand, when a good program
find it.
truly is unavailable, it seems better to
Out o/GEOS was written using a Quad
earth, |ust be ready to pay for your copy
Cl-128 via a Xelec Super Graphix inter lace in Transparent mode and
Fitzwater Si..
Philadelphia,
share copies with those who still need it than to allow it in disappear from the
SOFTWARE B A while baik- yvu indicated tllal you and two other gentlemen had put to NOVKMI1KH IHB7
if you later Hud the program available
commercially,
Jim Oldlield reports thai his Mid nilc Press book How to ('ft the Most
ram Quadlasei printer, connected to a
using WordPro 128/S, from Spinnaker Software.
And, vendors, when abandoning a
The O_uadlaser conies with four built-
product, why not give a noncopypro-
in fonts ,i\i<\ has a megabyte of RAM
lected sliai eware version to the nearest
into ivliich to load other fonts. I he only
obstacle to using
this primer with ,i
Commodore computer is thai your fa vorite word processor may be unable to embed long sequences of control
three fewer bytes of memory than usual. The savings in a large array are suffi
M.I99 REM L'S1N(. VARIABLES EN. EMS. ET & ES.
cient to be worth a serious effort to limit
2000 INPUT#l:>,i:.\.EMS.ET,ES
data values to integers.
2010 H''en>otiii-:n print
Characters within a document. For a Plus/4, you may also want to
ln,f.ms.et.es:stoi> 2020 RETURN
consider using an MW3S0 printer In
I'm writing a program that accesses 30
terface, it ii particularly recommended
99'JH CLOSE 15
rrlativi-fill's. IMi I have lo use 30 Open
0999 END
by the Plus Kxchnnge, and it alsu works
and Close SlatemtTltS, ur can I make a nib-
well with the (Mil and C-128.
routine using variables?
— ken paouno
A far more cosily hut also more lie*-
Ible laser printer is Apple's LaserWriter.
Pittsburgh, pa
You can use ii with your (54C (but no!
Here's a program example for ihe C-G'l llial list's variables and a sub
geoWrite and geoPublish, Since IBM lias just joined Apple in endorsing tlif
routine to open and close three previ ously existing relative files, one at a
LaserWriter's Postscript page descrip
time. (The 1541 disk drive allows only-
years to come, milking up for its rela tively high price,
one relative file to be open at a time.) Tile same technique should work for any reasonable number of files.
100 DL' = 8: REM DISK UNIT
NO DDS = "<>"; REM DATA DRIVE 120 OPEN I5JJU.I5 : RF.M DISK CMTJ CHANNEL
I'm running out of array memory on
I my C-12H. Is there a way to use idle limit program mrmory for arrays?
—Jim Lynch
St. Thomas. Virgin Islands
A Yes.
although it isn't very conve nient and works best when all the
some programs show no space iisrd. Don't
machine language programs use up spact hi RAM?
—Wallace Edson lompoc. ca
A The FRE( ) function on the C-li-l finds your remaining Basic work
90 REM INITIALIZATION
PROGRAMMING
FRE(X) tofind thespace used in HAM.
I'irst, what's the fin ntulu for the C-bl! Aim,
the PlusM) via the GEOS geoLaser driver and such GEOS programs as
tion language, the LaserWriter should he compatible with new products for
Iliauea couple ofquestions about using
space by subtracting the current con tents of a pointer to the start of the ilasic program work spnee from the con tents of a pointer to the end of the current Basic program. The difference
199 REM FIRST CALL
is the remaining number of free bytes,
aim rfs = 'tirstkii,i:'-
stored as a two-byte Integer, Since two-byte Integer values greater
'.nil GOSUB IOO0 22(j rem first file is now open
than :527(i7 are interpreted as negative
800 BF$h"SECONDFILE"'
and there are initially L.WS)\ I Basic bytes free on the C-64, if you try ? FRl-'(O) im
310 GOSUB 1000
mediately alter switching on \our com
299 rem second call
320 REM SECOND FILE iS NOW OPEN
data values in tile array to be stored
puter, the machine will report -26627
309 REM THIRD CALL
iliiit way art' small numbers or single characters, so each element can lit in a single byte of memory.
bytes free. When you get a negative nunv
400 RFS^TEHRDFH.E"
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•111) GOSUB 1000
the correct answer. If you give the latter command Im mediately alter switching on, the re sponse will be 58909, two bytes fewer
The basic Idea is to directly poke llie data into, and peek ii back out of, uilneeded spate in the Basic program bank of memory. You'll need to find a sate starting address within (lie unused space and llicn locate each clement in
the poked array relative to thai address.
(L'l) REM THIRD EILE IS NOW OPEN <)()(> GOTO 9998 996 REM S/R TO CI.OSI: A CURRENTLY
OPEN 997 RE\f FILE, THEN OPEN ANOTHF.R EXISTING
<>\\H REM RELATIVE FILE WHOSE NAME IS IN
It's also up to you to make sure nothing tampers with thai memory, since Basic
990 REM VARIABLE RK3 ON DISK UNIT
offers very few safeguards when using ihe Peek and Poke commands. Before going to that extreme, I'd re mind you of integer arrays. If a numeric array variable name i:\nk with a percenl i {%), each of its elements take up
1000 CLOSE 5
DU.
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10150 RETURN
1998 REM SIR TO CHECK DISK TOR ERRORS
than claimed by Commodore's sign-on message. The difference is due to two zero bytes that i-\u\ each Basic program
and are present even before a progi am is written or loaded. Commodore con siders them initially free, bul FRE(G) touni'. them as used.
As lor machine language programs, they do use space in RAM, but unless they emulate iiasic in the way they al locate that space, I-'RK(O) may not even
know they're in memory. Then, too, some machine language programs use » NOVKMBKIl 1987
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code should tend:
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470 DATA
2,157,60,3,232,142,225
575
169,0,133,198,173,225,
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32,204,255,32,25,139,7
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535
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174,225,2,202,142,225,
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3 2,32,210,2 55,56,32,240,25 5 475
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12,147,32,12,147,169,2
46,32,176,144
9,56,32,240,255
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4,32,210,148,169,3,141,204,
2,205,228,2,208,3,76,187,13
255,160,6,169,32,32,21
9,6, 1 41 ,1 34,2,96
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4,2,76,187,139
169,40,32,202,147,202,
204,255,32,25 :REM*43 DATA 139,173,53,3,240,3,76,
48,240,29,174,224,2,206,164
460 DATA
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365
93,201,20,240,33,201,1
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530
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360
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355
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142,220,2,2 32,142
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69,5,133,254,169,217
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147,162,12,160,5,177,253,72
350
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149,32,36,147,144,2,56
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520
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48,141,64,3,76,235,140
2.224,3,208,245,169,5,141,1
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141,2 24,2,32,7 8
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515
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4.3 2,240,2 55,169,0,133,198,
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1,208,3,76,137 :REM*17 DATA 150,169,78,141,60,3,16 ,3,32,208,146
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143,137,165,158,133,181 ,165
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60,0,32,207,255,145,158,32, 320
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197,133,253,169,5,133,
32,24 4,147,32,36 505
160,17,32,176,139,144,
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420
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254,169,13,141,204,2,162,1,
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144,3,76,2 02,137,173,233,2, 315
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141,198,2,169 500
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2,2,169,1,141,195,2,169,80,
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173,177,2,201,32 :REM*243 405 DATA 240,8,32,36,147,144,24 1,76,137,150,169,8,32,210,1
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169,4,32,210,148,32,78,149,
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44,3,76,137,150 490
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208,246,96,169,0,32,IB
32,186,255,32,192 390
232,2,208,8,174,225,2,
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290 DATA 9G,172,223,2,169,87,15 3,60,3,200,140,188,2,96,32,
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480
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305
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300
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5,133,168,169,217,133
DATA
:REM-107
186,2,201,1,208,11,169
DATA
745
DATA
750
:REM'192
85,173,141,2,141,184,2
:REM*52
,165,203,201,3,144,73,201 ,7
860 DATA 170,96,24,165,167,105, 40,133,167,165,168,105,0,13
,176,69,141,185
:REM*60
DATA
:REM*101
2,32,234,147,173,185,2
,56,233,3,141,185,2,173,184
:REM-193
2,32,188,151,169,3,141
755
3,168,24,165,169,105:REM'41
865
,2,201,1,208 :REM*182 DATA 9,24,173,185,2,105,4,1
DATA 40,133,169,165,170,105 ,0,13 3,170,96,56,16 5,167,23 3,40,133,167,165,16B
,229,2,32,34,145,169,83,141
41,185,2,174,185,2,189,30,1
:REM*144
,60,3,169,48
55, 170,32,123 :REM*89 DATA 150,189,0,161,240,20,2
870 DATA 233,0,133,168,56,165,1
DATA
:REM*64
141,61,3,169,58,141,62
760
,3,32,208,1-16,32,7 76,144,32
01,13,240,7,32,210,255,232,
,204,255,32,25
76,145,14 4,169,13
DATA
:REM*223
139,76,184,142,32,244,
765
DATA
:REM*134
8,32,130,150,76,49,234,32,2
,110,145,169,38,32 :RSH*124 DATA 210,148,169,42,32,210,
04,255,162,15,32 ;REM*183 DATA 198,255,32,207,255,201
770
148,169,46,32,210,148,169,2
,50,144,51,141,53,3,169,0,1
1,141,204,2,169,80 :REM*199 DATA 141,198,2,169,0,141,20
33,199,32,244,146
:REM*8 7
775
DATA
3,2,141,202,2,169,193,133,2
,7,160,7,32,240,255,173,53,
53,169,5,133,254
780
3,32,210,255 :REM*118 DATA 32,207,255,201,13,240,
DATA
:REM*14 8
162,2,142,195,2,32,244
6,32,210,255,76,220,144,169
,150,173,186,2
,1,141,53,3,32
DATA
201,1,208,3,76,60,144,
785
DATA
DATA
:REM*10fi
795
DATA
:REM«79
,6,133,254,162,0
55,200,177,253,201
:REM*192
32,244,147,32,36,147,1
800
DATA
:REM*48
,2,177,2 53,201,34,240,8,157
69,54,32,210,148 :REM*211 DATA 169,1,141,232,2,206,18
,60,3,200,232,76 805
DATA
:RBH*11
2,165,253,72,165,254,72,169
,2,240,12,24
,3,32,170,147,160
:REM*122 810
DATA
:REM'36
0,177,253,141,240,2,104,133
4,24,32,240,255 :REM*73 DATA 32,115,145,32,123,150, 174,192,2,189,0,161,240,11,
,2 54,104,133,253,104:REM*4 9
DATA
,133,199,96,169 820
DATA
:REM*240
,208,7,169,8,141,130,2,24,9
77,2,240,2 48,32,36
6,32,244,146
K L1 N
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:REM*51
170,147,56,165,253 895
:REM*139
DATA
:REM*53
233,29,141,207,2,165,2
54,233,176,141,208,2,162,5, 78,2 08,2,110,207 :REM'160 900
DATA 2,202,208,247,96,169,0 ,174,180,2,172,217,2,32,186 ,255,169,60,170
905
:REM*97
DATA 169,3,168,173,188,2,32 ,189,255,169,0,166,155,164, 156,32,213,255,142
910
:REM"62
DATA 222,2,140,223,2,96,173 ,188,2,16 2,60,160,3,32,189, 255,169,15,174
915
DATA
:REM*225
180,2,168,32,186,255,3
2,192,255,96,32,159,255,165
,203,201,60,208,247 920
DATA
:REM*64
32,234,147,96,32,110,1
45,162,0,169,32,157,144,5,1
57,126,6,232,208 925
DATA
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247,157,112,7,232,224,
80,2 08,2 48,32,110,145,162,7
930
1,133,199,96,173,201,2
,32,130,150,32,78,149,173,1
2,170,147,160,0 :REM*156 DATA 177,253,141,205,2,200, 177,253,141,206,2,169,3,32,
815 DATA 168,96,162,0,169,0,157 ,0,160,2 32,208,2 5 0,96,169,0
:REM*96
210,255,232,76,181,143
890
0,177,253,141,239,2,20
92,2,202,208,244,162,7,160,
2,96,174,222,2,134,253
,172,223,2,132,254,169,30,3
47,145,142,188,2,152,7
6,2,169,0,141,192,2,174,186 173,192,2,105,31,141,1
DATA
34,208,249,200,174,229
44,3,76,137,150,32,12,147,1
DATA
885
224,255,208,246,56,96,
24,96,169,0,141,229,2,160,2
:REM*242
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5,32,195,255,96,162,0,189,0
1,203,2,169,213,133,253,169 DATA
41,210,2,96,169
169,1,32,195,255,169,1
,160,208,7,232
10,144,26,201,100,144,
880
231,146,96,32,207,255,
,0,141,53,3,96 790
:HEM"49
195,2,142,198,2,232,14
:REK*211
DATA
11 ,169,7,14.1,209,2,169,25,1
201,13,240,3,76,242,144,169
:REM*212
DATA 32,210,148,169,4,141,2 04,2,141,199,2,169,7,141,20
DATA
33,0,133,170,96,201:REM*239 B75
169,2,141,134,2,24,162
,147,32,36,147,144,3,76,137
:REM*129
69,233,40,133,169,165,170,2
141,119,2,169,1,133,19
146,32,98,150,32,106,150,32
201 ,13,240,7,32 705
840
:REM*172
168,142,173,207,2,141 ,219,2
2,2,162,0,142
685
161,232,200,76,19,144,
204,255,32,25
0,145,169,50
680
DATA
157,0,161,76,213,143,120,16
201,3,208,3,76,42,144,32,11
675
:REM*23
1,32,244,147,32,36,147
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:HEM*223
39,32,81,152,32,176,144,32,
2,192,2,238,192
665
DATA
141,180,2,24,96,169,1,141 ,2
,15,145,144,3,76,168,142,14
660
835
21,2,173,201 :REM«183 DATA 2,141,180,2,24,96,169,
37,150,162,0
655
141,202,2,169,3,141,204,2,1
,160,0,185,60,3,240,12,201,
635 DATA 142,192,2,174,192,2,32
650
:REM»76
169,1,141,203,2,169,1,
41,199,2,162
:REM*6
104,76,213,143,104,170
DATA
13,240,8,157,0
:REM*72
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645
3,253,169,5,133,254
830
18,2,142,231,2
625 DATA
640
DATA
32,106,150,32,110,145,
32,98,150,24,96,162,1,142,2 615 DATA
630
720
DATA
DATA 254,104,133,253,162,0,
DATA
169,78,32,210,148,169,52,13
:REM*2 55
605
620
825
2, 110,145,32,98,150,169,0,1
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935
DATA
:REM*1)9
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64 41,217,2,32,169
1255
:REM*242'
210,255,32,123,150,104 :RSM*166
,255,173,53,3,240,6,32,20,
1360 DATA 32,68,146,32,110,145,
lREM*45
32,251,154,144,3,32,115,14 5,24,160,13,174,181:REM'47
DATA 20,139,165,175,133, 4G , 165,174,1 33,45,76,71,151,
136 5
32,98,150,32,115,150
:REM»170 1265
1270
DATA 2,32,240,255,172,209, 2,162,0,177,2 53,2 01,34,240
:REM*54
data 141,188,2,169,86,141,
:REM*110
137 5
1380
:REM*65
8,32,25,139,104,104 :REM*5 DATA 76,137,150,169,239,14
:REM*83
65,154,201,2
1390
1395
180,152,201,14
10,32,240,255,169,11,141,1 34,2,230,199,160,0 ;REM*79 DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA 221,2,189,28,155,32,2 10,255,32,130,150,160,28,1 62,9,24,32,240,255 DATA
1330
2,205,189,32,123,150,173,2 16,2,208,8,162,0 :REM'202 DATA 202,208,253,76,137,15 6 9,176,133,254,169,11
1430 DATA
3,145,32,90,138,32 :REM'23 1435 DATA 202,154,32,226,145,76
DATA 145,169,6,141,134,2,3 2,76,153,238,183,2,173,183
,2,205,216,2,208 1345
DATA
1350
DATA
:REM*S6
DATA
96,32,217,145,174
134,2,24,174,181,2,17
77,253,72,170,200
1355
DATA
:REM*211
177,253,72,32,130,150
,104,32,205,189,169,13,32,
IM
NUVTMHIR lilN7
DATA
7 6,153,96,160,13,177,167,7 3,128,145,167,200
:REM*254
:REM*39
73,86,69,32,65,58,32,
DATA
:REM'8
32,32,57,32,32,49,48,
32,66,58,32
:REM*92
1545 DATA 68,69,66,73,67,69,32, 35,32,61,32,56,32,32,57,32 ,32,49,48
:REM*233
1550 DATA 0,11,84,72,69,78,32,8 0,82,69,83,83,32,83,80,65, 67,69,0 1555
DATA
:REM*152
14,32,32,32,32,32,83,
73,90,69,32,32,32,32,32,32
,70,73,76
1560
DATA
:REM*145
69,32,78,65,77,69,32,
32,32,32,32,32,32,32,84,89
:REM'246
2,169,6,141,182,2,32,
DATA
255,255,32,6 8,82,7 3,86,69,
,80,69,32
l565
DATA
:REM*182
32,32,32,0,15,70,82,7
9,77,32,87,72,73,67,72,32,
:EEM*199 1455
67,65,78,67,69,76,32,0,7,3
,61,32,56
1540
,248,169,23,141,181
2,182,2,3 2,240,25 5,162,3,1
:REM*238
79,80,18,32,84,79,32,
68,69,86,73,67,69,32,35,32
:REM*33
1450 DATA 211,2,236,207,2,240,8 ,169,32,32,202,14 7,202,208
DATA
2,68,82 1535
248,169,11,141,181,2,
169,6,141,182,2,32,76,153,
1,96,169,32,32,202,14
10,145,169,6,141
DATA 2,76,105,154,32,217,1 45,174,211,2,240,a,169,32, 32,202,147,202,208
144 5
:REM*233
7,238,181,2,76,50,153,32,1
,146,83,84
1530
:REM*18
1440
:REM"37
18,32,84,79,32,85,78,
83,69,76,69,67,84,32,47,32
,219,153,32,243,145,32,14,
146,238,215,2,238,211
89,0,6,80,82,69,83,83,32,1
46,70,53
,2,176,235,238,211,2,32,24
82,2,169,0,141,183,2,169,1
1340
DATA
,148,76,219,153,174,215,2,
141,181,2,169,5,141,1
46,32,210,148,32,110 :REM*160
152 5
232,236,216,2,144,27
:REM*171 DATA
DATA 73,82,69,67,84,79,82,
146,206,215,2,206,211,2,16
:REM-36 174,211,2,232,236,207
:REM'150
'520
0,25,32,201,148,32:REM*251
173,206,2,174,205,2,3
0,230,199,169,29,133,253,1
,67,84,73,79,78,32,75,69,8
:REM'203
1125 DATA 226,145,160,25,32,201
:REM*105
DATA 76,69,83,255,70,85,78
9,83,255,68
240,43,206,211,2,32,2
DATA 153,32,243,145,32,41,
:REM*234
69,84,69,32,70,73,76,
9,32,70,73
1515
:REM*188
1420
DATA
69,83,255,82,69,78,65,77,6
54,32,226,145,76,219
:REH*61
1325
1510
:REM'244
4 3,14 5,32,179,138,3 2,172,1
:REM*177
,89,32,70,73,76,69,83,255,
:REM*183
DATA 0,160,206,220,2,32,23
0,192,16,208,246,24,16 2,9, 160,7,32,240,255,174 :REM*170
32,65,32,68,73,83,75,
68,69,76
3,32,218,141,173,177,
,208,23,173,211,2
177,253,32,210,255,20
DATA
6,69,67,84
:REM*56
5,154,76,219,153,173,215,2 141=
1500
22,174,211,2,169,1,15
144,11,169,0,157
1410
68,73,83,75,255,67,76,69,6 5,78,85,80 :REM*8
1505 DATA 73,79,78,0,5,67,79,B0
2,201,5,208,16,32,251,154,
1305
:REM*13
1495 DATA 82,77,65,84,32,65,32,
DATA 208,40,173,218,2,240, 35,173,219,2,205,220,2,240
54,173,226,2,240
)405
:REM*191
DATA 176,5,141,216,2,76,18 0,152,169,13,141,216,2,169 ,6,133,253,169,176:REM*120 1310 DATA 133,254,24,162,9,160,
,65,32,80,82,79,71,82,65,7
7,255,70,79
255,77,79,68,69,32,8 3,69,7
7,0,160,238,220,2,32,235,1
:R1-:M*1 48
:REM*242
DATA 85,80,255,82,85,78,32
:REM*123
,27,32,251,154,176
1400
:REM*97
DATA 69,58,0,3,70,82,69,69 ,0,4,68,82,73,86,69,32,33, 69,84
1490
:REM*58
DATA 208,3,76,121,154,201, 255,208,2,24,96,201,7,208, 2,56,96,201,32
7,141,40,3,32,109,146,169,
DATA 2,141,212,2,173,207,2 ,208,8,169,0,141,216,2,76,
2,73,86
1485
6,141,134,2,32,78,149
, 173,177,2,201,1,208,3,76,
156,32,169,146,169,23
0,141,215,2,141,211
DATA
:REM*220
83,69,76,69,67,84,0,2,68,8
:REM*209
1,188,2,169,0,133,155,141, DATA
,32,83,B0
1480 DATA 65,67,69,32,84,79,32,
,32,98,150,32,106,150,32,2
1385
:REM*183
72,69,78,32,80,82,69,83,83
DATA 200,192,30,208,246,96 55,145,32,226,145,169
1,40,3,162,0,189,16,155,15
217,2,169,176,133
9,86,69,32,67
:REM"163
DATA 110,145,24,160,32,174 ,181,2,32,240,255,172,210, 2,177,253,32,210,255
7,60,3,232,189,16 :REM*194 1290 DATA 155,157,60,3,169,2,14
1335
:REM*42
195,190,65,66,186,0,6
55,232,76,163,153,32
:REM*1B9
76,137,150,32,120,145,1 4 <!,
1320
78,8,195
1470 DATA
,144,3,76,137,150
DATA 32,244,146,169,142,32
1280 DATA 32,204,255,32,25,139,
1315
:REM+189
DATA 195,194,205,56,48,1,0 ,0,0,36,48,85,48,62,82,85,
1475 DATA 85,82,83,79,82,32,84,
8,146,32,176,144
1300
40,2,56,96,2 4,96 1465
03,2,76,13 7,150,3 2,120,145
60,3,169,48,141,61,3,32,20
1295
192,29,208,245,96,177
,167,174,211,2,189,0,160,2
2,124,217,31,93,155,1,77,7
1370
155,32,210,255,169,2
1285
DATA
:REM*16
32,47,147,169,0,141,2
,9,32,210,255,232
14 60
DATA 200,192,25,208,241,22 4,16,240,9,169,32,32,210,2
DATA
,210,148,174,221,2,189,28,
1275
SHELL
DATA 146,32,176,144,32,204 139,76,137,150,32
1260
DOS
68,82,73
1570
DATA
:REM*45
86,69,58,32,65,32,32,
66,32,0,16,68,73,83,75,32,
67,76,69
:REM+0l
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1500
1585
1590
65,78,45,85,80,32,87,
1690 DATA 32,70,82,79,77,32,68,
79,82,75,73,78,71,32,79,78
82,73,86,69,58,32,0,38,73,
DATA
,32,68,82 :REM*25 DATA 73,86,69,32,0,17,73,7
78,83,69 1695
69,84,32,68,73,83,75,32,65
75,32,73
,78,68,32
DATA
:REM*178
78,32,68,82,73,86,69,
1700
32,32,32 DATA
32,32,0,22,83,69,84,32,49, 53,52,49
1605
1610
1615
5,6 90,700,7 05,710:POKEV,ASC
:REM*97
[GS)-64:V=Vi2
:REM*105 :REM'164
77.79.68 :REM*!53 DATA 69,0,24,79,75,65,89,3
75,65,89 :REM'246 DATA 32,84,79,32,70,79,82,
280
POKES1,7:FORT=1TO20:POKES*2
1725
DATA 83,83,32,83,80,65,67,
2,84,79,32,68,69,76,69,84,
7 7,65,84,32,68,73,8 3,75,32
69,32,70
,32,73,32
DATA
:REM*80
73,76,69,45,76,73,83,
1730
DATA 65,89,32,84,79,32,82,
DATA
73,83,84,32,32,78,32,
:REM*244
1735
32,70,85
66.76.69 :REM*129 DATA 32,70,85,78,67,84,73, 7 9,78,3 2,75,69,89,8 3,0,30, 68.69.70 :REM*96 DATA 73,78,69,32,70,85,78,
1645
1740
1650
:REM"100 1745
,32,70,53 :REM'48 DATA 32,32,70,54,32,32,70, 69,89,61
DATA
DATA
:REM*100
32,32,32,32,32,32,32,
300
DATA 5,33,6,7,0,34,6,11,5,
1670
:REM*79 175 0
DATA
:REMM 1755
DATA
2
315
1,11,0,1,2,11,9,1,3,1
24,1,2,7,1,6,11,0,1,7
1675
;REM(84
RL
Listing 2. The DOS Shell Sauer program.
84,32,67,79,80,89,32,
20
INPUT"FILENAME";NMS
:REM*152
30
SYS
32,67,79
1680
:REM*89
DATA 80,89,32,70,73,76,69, 45,76,73,83,64,32,32,78,32
,32,89,32 1685
0}":GOSUD755:ON((WC=C)+2
IGOTO315:GOT0155 330
:REM*32
POKE532B1 , iS: PRINT" ISHFT CLR
SHELL
57812NMS,8,1:
96:POKE
194,134
40 POKE 174,156:POKE S
50
62957
POKE
193,1
;REH'221
335
LE=7:DO=6:WI=26:DE=10:GOSUB
3 40
GW=WC-MW r PR INT"(HOME)"TAB(1
910
345
:REM-220
73)"(CTRL
8j(4
SED WORDS
=";MW:POKE198,0
C1ISR
PRINTTAB(12)"(CRSR CT
:REM*24
WORDS
DN1CORRE
=";GW:PRIKTTAD(27| :REM"152
:REM«32
PRINT"SAVE COMPLETE. CHECK D HIVE FOR ERRORS" :REM*146
DKs)MIS
"(3 COMD Ys)(CRSR DN}"
175,159:SY 350
PRINTTAB(14)"TOTAL WORDS =" ;WC :REMT109
355 PRINTTAB(253)"(CRSR L
:REM*150
DN}(CTR :BEM*68
CLR) (CTRL
7,79,80,89,32,87,79,82,75,
CRSR
SPACEsJDO
73.78.71
ISH
ir \
:REM+131 i(i«7
360
4}"+P$:WAIT198,1
PRINT"(SIIFT
DATA 0,37,70,73,76,69,33,6
k
DNs}(2
9}CORRECT(CT
}":1.E = 5:DO=4:WI = 30:DE=14:GO
68,73,83,75,32,73,78,84,79
73,86,69,58,32,0,36,3
RTsHCTRL
:REM*2 55 CHSR
SUB910
:REM*196
2,32,79,75,65,89,32,84,79,
PRINT"(HOME}(9 CRSR
:REM*107
SAVER
DATA
CRSR DNs)";W
GOT0315:GOT0155 325
10,0,38,6,11,3,41,6,1
1,3,42,2,7,3,256
:REM*118
PRINT" UIOMEH6
DS(R):GOSUB755:ON((WC=C)+2)
,6,11 ,5,16,2,7,3,14,14
DATA
:REM*251
PRINT"[SHFT CLR)"rX=12:Y=l3
0
320
:REM"170
1770
:REM»148
:ZS = "USED AI,L WORDS" :GOSUB7
1,9,34,4,6,1,2,5,6,1
1765 DATA
FORT = 1TOCT;IFG$=G$(T)TliENM1
20:FORT;1TO2 500:NEXT:GOTO3 3
:HEM*85
DATA
REM DOS
:REM*202
POKE1263*F,ABC(G$|-64:MT=1:
=1
6,14,8,11,6,15,12,12,
10
,32,68,82
:REM*49
:REH'202
310 NEXT:RliTURN
6,18,8,13,6,20,5,11,6,21,1 1760
SAVE
8)":RET
;REM*97
305
7,3,37,6,11,5,15,2,7,
11,8,6,11,7,9,6,13,4,10
:REM*241
DATA
2]
CT^CT+1:GS(CTI=G$:GOTO265
32,32,32,32,32,0,34,73,78, 83,69,82
8)NOT[CTRL
WORD LIST{CTRL
URN
:REM*125
,32,32,32 1665
(CTRL
SPACEsJTIIIS
295 GOTO245
18,32,32,32,32,32,32,
32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32
WIL
2}{i
11,6,13,12,40,6,11,2,36,2
55,32,32,70,56,32,0,33,75, 1660
DNs
) (CTRL
YOUR
24,2,7,3,28,6,11,9,29
,6,13,9,30,6,15,9,31,6,18
:REM*145
DATA 32,70,49,32,32,70,50, 32,32,70,51,32,32,70,52,32
1655
DATA
IFAL=1THENPRINT"(5 CRSR I,
:REM*81
67,84,73,79,78,32,75,69,89
,83,0,31
:REM*230 290
17,22,6,11,13,23,6,13
:REH*176
78,67,84,73,79,78,32,
:REM'189
1,16:NEXT:POKES1 ,0
28
,13,26,2,7,3,0,0,27,6,7,4
75,69,89,83,0,29,69,78,65, 1640
DATA
:HEM*41
69,33,78,65,77,69,58,
6,9:POKES-t4, 1 7
9,2,7,23,20,6,10,1,21,6,10
0,2 8,68,7 3,83,65,66,76,69, DATA
32,89,32,0,17,2,7,1,1
:REI-1*98
70.73.76 DATA
DATA
4,15:POKES»1,i10:POKES+5,9:
:REM«149
JHEH*5
32,89,32,0,27,78,69,87,32,
n<;
:REM*34
ONECGOSUU640,650,660,665,68
IFEC<>7Tllt;N245
,69,45,76
1635
270
275
69,78,65,77,69,32,70,73,76
1630
HTGOTO245:EC=EC + 1 :IPBO9THE
NGOSUB715:GOTO320
69,0,42,32,32,32,32,32,79,
26.79.75
1625
:REM*253
NEXT:ON((CT=L)+2IG0TO325:0N
3,69,84,32,49,53,55,49,32,
1720
84,3 2,3 2,78,32,32,89,32,0,
1620
TIIEN300 265
:REM*210
,80,82,69
:REM*85
TO2 4 5: FORF = 1 TOI,: J FG $ = ER $ ( F )
83,79,85,82,67,69,32,
68,73,83,75,32,65,7 8,68,32
:REM*196
DATA 32,77,79,68,69,0,23,8
DATA
N250
:REM*51
82,84,32 1715
;REM-2 6
IFASC(GS)<65ORAEC[GS)>90THE
260 OH((CT>0)42)GOSUB305:ONM1GO
32,68,69,83,84,82,79,
89,69,68,0,41,73,78,33,69,
:HEM*251
32,32,32,32,32,32,32,
DATA
33ANDRR=0THEN795 255
77,32,73,78,32,77,69,
,32,66,69
1710
0,21 ,32,32,32,32,32,32,32, 1G00
DATA
:REM*114
77,79,82,89,32,87,73,76,76
:REM*188
?";:POKE198,0 :REM*99
71,82,65
32,78,65,77,63,5S,32,
DNJLETTER
250 WAIT198.1:GETG$:IFASCIGS)=1
80,65,67,69,0,40,80,82,79,
DATA
:REM*90
245 MT=0:M1=0:PRINT"(HOME}(CRSR
DATA 80,82,69,83,83,32,83,
82,69,83 :REM*25 DATA 83,32,83,80,65,67,69, 73,83,75
W
:REM»217
3 2,0,19,32,65,7 8,68,3 2,80,
1705
Or"'STRSIC) t-"
8)":GOSUB720:V=11
47:EC=0
:REM*t54
82,84,32,84,65,82,71,
8,83,69,82,84,32,68,73,83,
0,20,69,78,84,69,82,32,68, 1595
DATA
iSTR$(WC)<"
OHDS(CTRL
DNsJ(4 TO
PLAY
AGAIN?(2
8} (3 YOU
W
SPACES
WORDMAN
[{CTRL
T
9)Y/n":POKE198,0
365
DN)(2
CRSR
;REM*202 :REM*21
X = 10:Y = 3:ZS = '"PRESS (CTRL 9} C1CTRL 0! TO CREATE A NEW F ILE":GO5UB7 20:X-9:Y=9:Z$="(
635
495 OPEN15,8,15:OPEN5,8,5,"0:WH " + ID$-t",S,W":GOSUB7 60:IFKT =8THEN470
3 70 ON<(AJ="Y")+2)GOTO155:GOT03
65
RTs J
:REM'107
GETAJ:rFA$="N"THENPRINT"[Sfl FT CLR)":POKE7S8,49:END
375
CLRHCRSR
"+LLS:GOSUB7 70:GOTO470
:REM*17
LOSE15:GOT059 5
640
NEXT
:REM*4
:REM*191
X=0:Y=28:Z$="(SHFT U}(3 SHF T
:REM*44
*s)(SHFT
I]":GOSUB720:FOR
X=1T02:Z$="(SHFT
500 F0RM=1TOWD:IFDFS(M)=""THEND FS(H)="." :REM'105 505 510
CLOSES:PRINTS 15,"S0:"*IDS:C
sKSHFT
-}|3
^24
645
F0RDC = 1TOWD:PRINTS 5,WD$[DC 1
:REM*62
Z$ = "{SilFT J}(2
SHFT
D
SPACES) {SHFT
RlfSilFT
K)(3
*s) (COM
COMD 3}"
:REM*134
; CR$ ; DI'J ( DC ) : NEXT: GOSUB76 0 :
JltCOMD
380 GOSUB720
rRKM*1S1
IFET=8THEN155
K)":GOSUE720:RETURN
385 X=12:Y=9:GOSUB720:X=13:Y=3: ZS="PRESS {CTRL 9)E{CTRL 0} TO EDIT AN EXISTING FILE"; GOSUB720
rREM*120
390 GETA$:IFA$o"C"ANDA$< >"E"TH EN390 :RRM*165 395 IFA$»"E"THENCLR:RW=1:GOSUB1 05:WW=1:ED=1:GOT0525
ENTER
#
OF
CRSR DN)":INPUT"f3 CTRL
0)
0";WD$
NT"(5HFT CLR){3 TER
530
OF
535
PR I NT" {3
540
:REH'152
EN415
555
:REM*50
SPACEslMAXIMUM
LENGTH
CIIARACTERSUIOME} (CRSR
FORI=1TOWD
=
560
:REM«133
SPACES}(2 CRSR WD${I)
:REM*36
4 40 IFWDSII)=""ORLEN{WD$(It)>1 6 THENGOSUB790:GOTO4 3 5
565
445
NEXT
575
■150
PRINTTAB(12)"(CRSR DN}WORDS O.K.? (CTRL 9)Y/N(CTRL 0}"
580
UPs)":GOTO450
:REM*118
460 IFDF=1ORED=1THENGOSU!Si)00 ONEDGUTO960
470
PRINT'MSHFT CLR}(2 CRSR DNs (MAX OF
1
3 CHARACTERSHCRSR DN)"
TRL 9)RETURN(CTRL
0)
(9
SF=1:GOTO530
(CTRL
485 0N((AS="Y")+2)G0T0155:ON{(A S="N")+2)GOTO470 :REM*136 4 90 IFI,UN( IDS ) >13THENPRIKT" (SHF
El{SHFT
-)
(SliFT
-}
(SHFT -}":GOSUB720:NEXT:
-1(3
SPACEsHSHFT
RETURN
:REM+91
690 Y=26:X=21:ZS="(COMD Q)(SHFT *){COMD W){3 SPACEs){COMD QKSHFT
*){COMD
H)":G0SUB72
0:X = 22:Y = 24:Z$ = "(SHFT UHSH FT ♦HSHI-'T
K)
{SHFT
:REM+1 19
:REM*82
695
IFEN=62THENfiOSUB76 5:
:REM*53
SP
:REM*150 SHFT *s
X=23:ZS="{SHFT J>{3 SHFT
SPACEsHSHFT Jl
*s HSHFT
K)":GOSUB7
20:RETURN
rREM*143
700 X=l:Y=30Tai="{CTRL 2)*(CTRL 8)":GOSUB720.-RETURN:REM'46 705 Y=30:FORX=11TO15STEP2:ZS="{ SHFT QJ":GOSUB720:NE>;T:RETU
0PEN15,8,15:OPENS,8,5,"0:"• IIEN595
-)(3
ACEs){SHFT -) {SHFT J](SHFT •I{SHFT I)":GOSUB720
:REM"189
IFAL=1THENAL=0:RETURN
*]
*)(C0
;REM*166
:HEM*218
IDS+",S,R":GOSUB7 60:IFET=8T 6 30
:REM*105
ETURN
GETAS:IFA$< >"Y"ANDA$< >"N"TH
62fl IFAS="N"THEN595
:REM'238
68S Y=26:FORX=18TO20:ZI="(SIiFT
9}KXAC
:REM*23H
R)(S *sKC
MD RUSHFT K)MM":GOSUB720:R
(3
615
-s)"
E}(COHD RUSHFT
HSHFT K)(3
EN610
SliFT
•JtCOMD R)[COMD (COMD
:CLOSE!5:ON{(ET=8).2)G0TO52
PRINT" EXIT TO MENU)(CRSR D
625
SHFT
*s){COMD
680 Z$ = "MM(SHFT JHCOMD R)(SHFT
:REH«174 ;REM»201
SHFT
5:RETURN
N)":ID$="":INPUT1DS:IFIDS=" "TIIENAL=1 :GOSUB280:GOSUB560 :REM*211
SHFT -s)":GOSU
675 GOSUB720:X=17
TLY1CTRL 0) AS SHOWN":PRINT " ON THE DIRECTORY" :REM'55
610
SPACEs){3
B720:NEXT:ZS="(2 SHFT -a)(C
INPUT#5,WD$(C),DF$(C):C=C+1
MTEH FILE NAME
:REM*26
480
:REM*87
U){SHFT :REM*113
:REM*t5
605 SYS83 0:OPEN15,8,15:GOSUB760
TO";
SPACEsHSHFT
670 FORX = 1 1TO15:Z$ = "(3 S!1FT -s]
:REM+1 1 1
THENWD=C:GOTO425
(C
I}(9
1}(SHFT -]":GOSUB720
W)(2
590 GOT0155 :REM*250 595 PRINT"(SHFT CLRHCRSR DN) E
:REM*21
A$="":PRINTTAB(5l"(PRESS
T
OHD
:IFST=0THEN580
600
I)":GOSUD720:X=
10:ZS = "(SHFT -)(SilFT U) (SHF
2}ARE YOU
585 CLOSE!5:CLOSES:C = C-1 :IFED = 1
:REM*31 :REH*82
465
FILE NAME
FT "S)(SHFT
*){COMD R](3
O525:GOTO520
8
:REM*178
665 X=9:Yn23:Z$="(SHFT U){13 SH
Q){3
IFEN=6 2TI!ENCOSUB76 5:ONEDCOT
*){CTRL
)":GO3UIJ720:ReTURN
HFT
= 8T1!EN1 55
:GETA$:IFAS="N"THENWW=1 :GOT 0425 :REM*21 3 455 IFAS<>"Y"THENPRINT"(3 CRSR
;REM*4 7
OMD
IFIDI="S"THEN520
:HEM*34
{SHFT U) [SHF
LB.lfSHFT QHCOMD
570 OPEN!5,8,15:OPEN5,8,5,"0:WM " + IDS*",S,R":G0SUB7 60:1 PET
:REM*125 :REM*200
I)
:REH*75
SURE? (CTRL 9)Y/N(CTRL 0)(C :REM*118 TRL 8)":GOTO610
LFs)";:INPUT
»)(SHFT
IFSF=10RAL=1T!IENPRINTTABn2
)"(CRSR DN}(CTRL
435 ONWWGOTO775:PRINTAJ5;I;"{2
-)"
RN
:REK'195
IFID$o"$"THEN5 60 :REM*1 30 PRINT"(SHFT CI,R}":GOSUB605: PRINTTAB(14)"(CRSR DN)(CTRL
DN)":
SPACE
660 X=8:Y = 29:?,S = "{CTRL 6){SHFT
1:ONSFGOT0595:ONEDGOT05Z5
:REM*128
430 IFI>9THENAJS=""
liFT
IFID$=""THENSF=0:C=0:GOTO15
2)"*PJt"(CTRL 8}":WAIT198,
16
s)(SHFT KHSIIFT
M
UN)":PRINT;IDS.""
420 IFA$="Y"THENDF=1 :REM*177 425 AJS=" ":PRINT"(SHFT CLR){5
475
(CTRL 9)
: irjPUTIDS
5
5)(2
-)":GOSUB720:X=6!Z$
T *){SHFT K)":GOSUB720:RETU
:REM*69
TO EXIT TO
SPACES){SHFT
655 GOSUB720:X=7:Z$»"(SHFT J){S
SCROLLING":
PRINTTAB(7)"[PRESS
-
-"tSHFT -HSIiFT J)(3 SHFT *
:REH*52
ENUKCRSR 545
1(2
PRINT"{4 SPACEslDEPRESSING
RETURN(CTRL 0J
5 50
ENTER
(CTRL DIRECT
SPACEs!(SHFT W)(SHFT
SHSHFT
DNJtPRKSS
P0KE198,0
9)Y/N(CTRL 0}" :REM*11 GETA$:IFA$o<'Y"ANDA$o"N"T!l
)
PRINTTAB[6)"(CRSR
-}iSHFT
)":GOSUB720:X=5:ZS="[SHFT -
DNs)EN
:REM'150
(CTRL
*s){EHFT
X=4:Y=27:ZS="{S9FT WJ{3
:REM'207
CRSR DNs){CRER RT}
INCLUDE DEFINITIONS?
41 5
CRSR
NAME:"
SHIFT KEY STOPS
2
:KEM*231
EN155
FILE
(CTRL 9)S(CTRL 0) S 9)SETURN(CTRL 0) FOR
405 WD^VAMWDS) : IFWDJ 20ORWDO TH 410
:REM-146
ORY>"
WORDS{
SHFT
:REM*159
650
525 0N((SF=;).2)GOTO595:C=1:PRI
SPACEsH
9)MAXIMUM{CTRL
:REM*63
520 CLR:RW=1:GOSUB105
400 CLR:RW=1:GOSUB105:PRINT"f2 DNs)
H)(2
515 CLOSE5:CLOSE15:CLR:RW=1:GOS
:REM-218 CRSR
:REM'H')
UB105:GOTO15 5
SPACE
-}":GOSUB720:NEXT:Y
710
RN :REM*105 Y=27:X=10:ZS="(2 COMD Ps}{3 SPACES){2
COMD
Ps)":G0SUB7
20:X^11IZ$="£3HPT M)(SHFT N i n»\'1-:mbkr ];wt
kin
117
WO RDM AW
)
1SHFT Q)
(SHFT M)(SHFT N)
":GOSUB7 20:RETURN :REM*226 715 X=6:Y^2B:Z$="{SHET U)(3 SHF T
-sUSHFT
I)":GOSUB720:MW=
MW.l :RETURN
MD P)"; 820 NEXT:PRINT
:REM*4 :REM»173
825 PRINTTAG(XA}"(CTRL
8)***
TRL
:REM*157
L 0)(CTRL 8) •••":PRINTTAB{ 36)"(COMD 6)"LO:GOSUB910
720 POKE781,X:POKE782,Y:S¥S6552
0:PRINTZS:RETURN :REM*2 52 725 PRINTTABI12)"(CTRL 3}* * * .
*
*
,
*
*":RETURN
;REM*27
830
MBER
:REM*144
73S PRINT"{SHFT CLR)[3 CRSR DNs
)"TAB(255)"MUST USE A":PRIN
S3S
:REM'112
DNs)NO WORDS
PTION LOAD" RL
9)RETURN[CTRL
(CT
2)":X=22:Y
[UP 845
1:GOTO155
" + P$
<20)OR(EN=62)THENET=0:RETUR N 765 PRINT"{7 CRSR DNs)
855
770
PRINT"fCRER DN){7 SPACEs}"* PI*"
TO
ETURN
775
865
870 875 B80
(CTRL
9!RETURN(CTRL
TO RE-ENTER"
:REM*51
GETAS:ON((AJ=CHRS(13)l«2)GO
M 'VlD$i-",S,W":GOSUB760:IFE T=8THEN960
;REM*177
985
GOTO500
:REM*182
990
IFIDS=""THEN745
995
PRINT"(SHFT ){2
OTO89 0:GOTO865
E FILEfCRSR
:REM*182
IFED=1TIIENGOSUB895 :REM'7 NEXT:PRINT"{SHFT CLR)(CTRL
RSR
-
CRSR
RTs)THAT
(CTRL 9)(CTRL 2)";IDS
PRINTTAI!(61"(2 CRSR DNs)
0)
[CTRL
:REM*204
RE-ENTER"
:REM«109
1010
:REM*125
Y=2:ZI=SP$:FORX=3T04:GOSUB7
:REM*127
B895:ONED-.1GOTO900: PRINT" (H
NT"'{CTRL PRINT
920
]"(CTRL
:REM*207
SPACEs}IN
OT0965
:REM*226
) ) )/2:GOSUi31045:PRINT#4,"" TAB(XA);IDS:GOSUB104 5 :REH*61
F0RB=1T0DE:PRINTTAH(LE);"(C
PRINT#4,"{3 SPACES)"WD$(X) ,CHR$(10):NEXT:CL0SE4:GOTO
OMD J)";TAB(LE+WI-1)"{COMD L}" :REM*242
1035 PRINT#4,"[3 SPACES)"WDS(X)
PRINT"(CRSR UP)":NEXT:P0KE2
;""TAB(25-LEN(WD$|X)));DFJ
:IFAS="Y"THEN1035
155
(X) ,CIIRS(10) :NEXT
:REM*163
:REM'166
:REM*239
"(CRSR UP)";:F0RB=1T0WI:PRI
1040
CLOSE4:G0TO155
NT"{COMD Y)";
:REM*155
104 5
FORX=1TO80:PRINT#4,"-";:NE
:REM*100
NEXT:RETURN
DATA169,2,ie2,176,160,3,32,
NOVKMJSl-.K IHN7
DNs){9
DEFINITI0NS?":PP=3:G
1030
rREM*119
930
■
CRSR
1020 OPEN4,4:XA=INT(B0-(LEN(IDS
3HC0MD P)";:NEXT:
925
!( V N
:REM*193
0N((AS="N")+2)GOT0155;PRIN
PRINT#4,CHR${10):FORX=1TOC
:PRINTTAB(XA+4);FORI=1TOLEN
2 1 (CO
SPACES IIS
READY?":PP=2:
1025
XA=INT(32-(LEN(WDS(LO))I)/2 (WDS(l.O) ) :PRItJT"(CTRL
DNs)(9
PRINTER
CLUDE
11,LE:POKE214,DO+DEtl:PRINT
8}(20 COMD Yg)"
CRSR
P0KE211,LE:POKE214,DO:PRINT
OME}(2 CRSR DNs)":GOTO815
1
0N{(AS="N")*2)GOTO155:PRIN
T"(2
:REM*190
"{CRSR UP}";:FORB=1T0WI:PRI
SPACES)SCREEN":PRINTTABI10
:REM*145
GOTO965 1015
FORX=20TO23:GOSUB720:NEXT:I DNs}":GOTO815
8}"
S THIS THE CORRECT FILE?": PP=1:GOTO965 :REM»16a
2}":PRINTTAB|8H)PS-t-"
WAIT198,1:GETA$:G0T0810
C
IS-
1005
910
TRL 2]"TAB(11)"DEFINITIONI2
9}LONG
li
DN)(C
WILL
PRINT"[CTRL
FORLO = 1TOI-1 :IFLO> 1TIIENGOSU
PRINT"(SHFT CLRHCR5R
TH
DN)":PRINT"[2
1000
720:GOTO245
810
DNs
OF
8)(CTRL
FED=0T1IENPRINT"(HOME){2 CRE
915
NAME
PRINTTABd37J"(CTRL
905 GOTO840
:REH«89
RTs)T!iE
CRSR
:REM*44
•"•(CRSR UP)(CTRL 8)":GOSUB
LE=1:DO=7:WI=38:DE=3:REH«74
:REM*35
CLR){2
8]":RETURN
:REM*156
:REM*218
:REM*4 2
OPEN15,8,15:0PEN5,8,5,"@0:W
TO870:ON( (A$ = CHRS(1 41 | )t-2)G
20:NEXT:X=8:GOSUB720:RETURN
Z)*"+DF$(R)
lREM-85
= '"N"GOTO4 70 980
PRINTTAB(8)"{CTRL 9)SHIFT{C 0)
:REM*130
TO970
{CTRL 9)RETURN<CTRL
TO ACCEPT(CRSR DN)"
:REM*116
805
11H
975 ONPPGOTO1010,1015,1020:IFA$
CRSR DNs ) "TAB( 249 )
X=I*1:Y=3:ZS=SPS*"(CRSR UP} ":GOSUB7 20:RETURN :REH*95 :X=24:Z$«"{CTRL
9J0R1GINA
PRINT"(<5
0900
900
RTs)[CTRL
L 0)"
THE
795 Y=INT((38-{LEN(DF$(R))))/2)
815
CRSR
T"(2
895
FILE
L[CTRL 0) NAME OF--{CTRL 9! {CTRL 2)";IDS :REM»217
890 X=8:Y=2:Zi=SP5:GOSUB720:GOT
785 NEXT:GOTO450
800
UP)
IFWD$(I) = ""ORLEN(WDS(I)> >16 :REM*227
DNs
THIS
USING THE":PRINT"[C:RSR DN) [2
:REM*222
775
RTsJSAVE
GETA$:IFAI< > " Y" ANDAS '■> "N"GO
TO 885
CRSR
CRSR
970
(CTRL
THENWD$(r)="":GOSUO790:GOTO
790
RTsHCRSR
:REM-84
PRINT"{SHFT CLR){3
:REM*244
NPUTWDS(I)
780
";;I
CRSR
9}TOO(CTRL
SPACEs){CTRL
CRSR RTs)
960
:X=8:Y=XA:Z$="(CTRL 2}"+DFS (LO):GOSUB720 :REM*163
0)
9)";WD$(1):WD$(I)="":PRINT
"{CRSR UPII3
204,25 5,96,36,48
PRINTTABd3)"[2 CRSR DNs)PR ESS [CTRL 9)Y/N(CTRL 8)[CTR
TRL
:REM*95
PRINTAJS;T;"(2
2,3,24,169,1,32,195,255,32,
:REM*194
:REM*4 4
860
CONTINUE'":WAIT198,1
:CLOSE5:CLOSE15:POKE198,0:R
955
965
Hi
EN"{CRSR LF), "EMS","ET"{CR SR LF),"ES"{CTRL 8>":ET=8 :R£M*79
SPACES
DN)":IFED=1A
:REM*211
"PRESS
:REM*160 (CTRL 9)
[CTRL 2JDISK ERRORICTRL 0)"'
66,145,224,127,240,15,32,20 7,255,105,0,208,235 :REM*83 DATA169,!3,32,210,255,76,10
0).
0880 :REM*6 350 XA=INT<40-<LEN(DF$(LO)|)|/2
:REM*119
760 INPUT#15,EN,EM$,ET,ES:IF{EN
(CTRL 9)
.(CRSR LF)";DF$(LO):E2=0:IF
+ " TfCTRL 8)"';GOSUB720:WAIT 198,1:RETURN
5,32,207,255,32,210:REM*148
LEN(DF$(LO))>36THENE2=1:GOT
:REM«134
X=15:Y»1:Z$»"{COMD 6)*
32,205,189,169,32,32,210,25
ARROW)[CRSR UP)":GO
INPUT"(2
:REM*219
DATA208,44,165,251 ,166,252,
1(2
=14;ZS=P$:GOSUB720:WAIT198, 755
5,133,251,165,144
945
950 DATA255,174,141,2,208,251,1
840 POKE19,64:X=17:Y=2:ZS="
(CTRL 9)4{CTRL 0) TO :REM*105
750 PRINTTAB(93)"THEN PRESS
2,2 07,2 55,133,252,32,207,25
:REM'87
SPACES]I INCLUDING
SUB720
:REM*0
DATA32,207,255,32,207,255,3
NOT"
CAN
8)(CTRL
NDE2=0THENGOTO850
IN MEMO
RY":PRINTTAB(14)"{CRSR DN}O
2}36(CTRL
)(CTRL 2){CRSR
7-15 PRINT" (SHFT CLR ) "TAG ( 253 ) " { 2 CRSR
CHARACTERS
PRINTTAB(5)"EXCEED (2
740 PRINTTAB(17)"[2 CRSR DNs}NU O155
OF
(CTRL
TTAB(15)"{2 CRSR DNs){CTRL 9}HIGHLIGHTED" :HEM*25 5 MBER":FORT=1TO2000:NEXT:GOT
PRINT"(CRSR DN}":PRINTTAB{3 )"(CRSR DN}(CTRL 8JTOTAL NU
:REM*3
55,169,13,32,210,255
940
:REM*236
730 PRINTTAB(12)"'"SPC(15)"*":H ETURN
(C
9)(CTRL 2("WDI{LO)"(CTR
2,186,255,32,192
935 IJATA255,24,162,1 ,32,198,255 ,176,75,32,207,255,32,207,2
189,2 55,169,1,162,8,160,0,3
XT:RETURN
:REM*42 :REM*249
How To Type RUN Listings T<> simplify typing RUN'a (:•(>■! and C-128 program listings, we
include checksum number!. These follow ;i REM statement at the
end ol' each line (<'.«■• :REM* 123) and necessitate your uilng RUN'S Perfect Typist programs, lined below.
Type in tit PerfeCI Typisl (l.isiing 1] for 64 programs, or 128 IVrfccl Typist (Listing 2) for 12H mode programs, and save it Co either tape or disk before running. When >on waal to lype in a 64- or a 128-mode program, first load and run the appropriate Perfect Typist listing. Jin down the two SVS numbers that appear on yuur .screen.
They are the SVS numben thai you type in lor deactivating and reactivating the checksum program. After Perfect Typisl has been loaded and run. atari typing in the program listing from RUN. Afiei you press the return key to lag In escli line, a 1-, 'I- or 3-digii number will appear belOW the line at the left
margin. This is the checksum number,rangfag£rom0to2B5.
[fthis matches the checksum printed in the listing after ihe:RKM*,
you have typed thai line correctly. Then lype the nexi program line
over the previous line's checksum value. If the checksum numbers do not agree, analyze the line on screen for errors or omission*.
Make- tin- needed changes and press the return key again lo log them
in. A new checksum will appear in plate of ihe old one. Compare
this to the magazine's number and then proceed lo the nest line.
When you've finished typing i" your program, disable Perfect Typisi by typing In ihi' appropriate svs number tot either (M or 1128 mode, and press the leturn key. Now you can save your program as usual, hut before attempting lo run il, nun thi' i ompuler off and
back on to Completely clear out the Perfeti Typisl program.
You may save an incomplete program any time and continue ii
later. To do so, reload and run the Perfect Typist program, then
load the program you were working on. !is( it. ami continue from where you Eelt oil.
The 128 Perfect Typist will work in either 40 Of 80 columns. Also, it leis you use the tMiiH's automatic line-numbering, tf Auto is on, ihe checksum will lie printed below ihe line you just entered, and
tin- C-138 will placg •'"" lleNl MTle number below the checksum.
All listings in RUN have been Iranslaled in thai ihe graphics and control (haraclers are designated as underslandahle key combinations. Follow Instructions inside curly brackets. ft>r example.
(SHIFT L} means you should hold down the shift key ami press the
L key. What you see on your screen will look quite differi'iil from
what is designated inside ihe brackets. Another example is {22
SFACEl}, which Instructs you to press the space bar 22 limes.IS
Listing 1. 54 Perfect Typist program.
1 2
REM REM
64 PERFECT TYPIST BY: JAMES E BORDEN
10 POKE56,PEEK(56)-1:POKE52,PEEK{56):CLR 20 PG=PEEK(56):ML=PG*256+60 30 FORX=ML TO ML+154:READD:T=T+D:POKEX,D:N EXT
40
IFT<>16251
THEN PRINT"ERROR IN
DATA..."
:END
60 70 00 89
POKEML+4,PG:POKEML+10,PG:POKE ML+16,PG POKE ML+20,PG:POKE ML+32,PG:POKE ML+38, PG
POKE ML+141,PG PRINT"(SHFT
CLR){CRSR rt}**************
90 SYS ML:PRINT "{CRSR RT}** 64 PERFECT TY PrST
IS
NOW
ACTIVE{2
SPACES}**"
100 PRINT "(CRSR RT}** SYS"ML"=ON(5 SPACES 1 01
JSYS"ML+30"=OFF **"
PRINT"{CRSR
rt)***********************
***************":n
110 120 130 140 15 0
DATA DATA DATA
173,005, 003,201,003, 208, 001,096 141,105, 003,173,004, 003, 141,104 003,162, 103,160,003, 1 42, 004,003
140,005, 003,096,234, 234, 173 104 003,141, 004,003,173, 105, 003 141 16 0 DATA 005,003, 096,032,124, 165, 1 32 011 170 DATA 162, 142,240,003, 142, 241 ,003 180 DATA 139, 002,240,051, 201 , 032,208 190 DATA 004,164, 212,240,040, 201 , 034,208 200 DATA 008,072, 165,212,073, 001, 133,212 210 DATA 104,072, 238,241,003, 173, 241,003 220 DATA 041,007, 168,104,024, 072, 024,104 230 DATA 016,001, 056,042,136, 01G, 246,109 240 DATA 240,003, 141,240,003, 232, 208,200 250 DATA 173 240, 003,024,101, 020, 024,101 260 DATA 021 141 , 240,003,169, 042, 032,210 270 DATA 255 169, 000,174,240, 003, 032,205 2S0 DATA 189 1 62, 003,189,211, 003, 032,210 290
300
DATA DATA
DATA
DATA
255,202, 016,247,164, 011, 096,145
013,032, 032
Listing 2. 128 Perfect Typist program.
1 REM 40/80 COL C128 PERFECT TYPIST 2 REM BY: JAMES E BORDEN
10 FORX=5120TO5379:READD:T=T+D:POKEX,D
20 NEXT;IFT<>28312 THENPRIHT"{2 CRSR DNsJE RROR
IN
DATA...":END
25 A$ = "":IFPEEK(215) 30
PRINT"{SHFT
TilENA$ = "(20 SPACEsl"
CLR)"A$"
******************
*****************«**"
40 PRINTA$" CTIVE
** 128 PERFECT TYPIST IS NOW A
**"
50 PRINTA$" **(2 SPACEsJSYS 5120=ON[7 SPAC 60
EsJSYS 5150=OFF(2 SPACES}**" PRINTA$"
******************************
********":SYS5120:NEW
70 DATA 173,5,3,201,20,208,1,96,141,45,20, 173,4,3,141,44,20,162,43,160,20
80 DATA 142,4,3,140,5,3,96,234,234,173,44, 20,141,4,3,173,45,20,141,5,3,96
90 DATA 32,13,67,140,255,19,162,0,142,252, 19,142,2 53,19,142,254,19,189,0,2
100 DATA 201,32,240,8,201,48,144,7,201,58, NOVEMDKR IBB7
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119
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FOR I=1TO7:ES=ES-.1:EY=ES+.06:PX=1:PY = 1
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NEXTYY,XX,I:SPRSAVA$,1:PRINT"(SHFT CLR} ii
90 FOR
I=1TO7:SSHAPE B$(1+1),1*25*21,50,I*
25*43,71:NEXT:GRAPHIC0 100
FOR
I = 1TO8:SPRITE
30*1,115:SPRSAV
1,1,1 ,1:HOVSPR
1,50 +
B$(I),I
110 NEXT:END 120 x1=((i*25j+((xx*es)+(12-(12*es)j))+20: y1 =5(j+( (yy*ey) + (1 0-( 10 + ey) ) ) 130
draw
1,xi,y1:return
—Marco Hagelsieb, Guadalajara. Jalisco, Mexico
5446 Magic 80-Coixjmn Cursor I'nliki- on the C-fil, it's easy n> |>ri>graiu a blinking cursor on your C-128's 80-ccihitnn scii'cti. Vbu ncc-d only uitri [he
S.r>(iS video display chip's Cursor modi- on, then oil when you'if done, To turn it on, enter BANK ir>:SYS<19182,70- This prims an
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any bank-switching in your program, remember that my routine will always i'xit in bank 15,
TOGGLER
SPEECH
10
REM
80-EDWARD B SULLIVAN
20
PA=4864:FORX=PATOPA+51 : READE: POKEX,E:C = C+E:NEXT
30
IFC<>5611THENPRINT"ERROR!":STOP
40
DATA 169,0,141,0,255,162,12,32,204,205,
50
141,46,10,169,8,162,20,32,204,205 DATA 141,47,10,96,234,169,0,141,0,255,1 69,16,162,12,32,204,205,141,46,10
60
DATA
70
S1=PA:S2=PA+25:
80
PRINT"(SHFT
169,24,162,20,32,204,205,141,47,10
,96,234
T
CLR]":KEY1,"SYS"+STRS(S!)+C IS
THE
DEFAUL
SCREEN":GETKEYA$ SYS
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*• DEMO
DIRECTORY:PRINT"SCREEN #1
100
VOICE RECOGNITION
controls pjogroms. « home oppliances. roCois. and more wtlh spoksn
REM
HR$(13):KEY2,"SYS"+STK$(S2)+CHR$( 13) 90
DIGITIZER,
2 THE
CLR)ALWAYS
FIRST TIME
CLEAR
SC
ACCESSED":LIST
:GETKEYA$
110 syss1 :getkeyas:syss2:getkeyas:goto1 10
—Edward b. Sullivan, Branson, mo
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ond recognilion patterns are lecorOed Into
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PRINT"[SHFT CLRJC-64
-
JOSEPH
20
INPUT "(CRSR DNJBEATS PER MINUTE 8>";N IFN<40 OR N1208THEN END
(40-20
30
METRONOME
CHARNETSKI"
40 FORI=1TO9 50 B$=B$+"{SHFT MJ{CRSR DN}":C$=C$+"{CKSR UP}
60 70
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(CRSR DN}":E$=E$+"{CRSR UP}{SHF
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NEXT
80 H$="(HOME}(9 CRSR DNs){10 CRSR RTs)" 90 A$<0)=H$+B$+"*"+C$:A$(1 ) =[I$ + D$+"*"+E$ 100 S=54272:FORJ=STOS+2 3:POKEJ,0:NEXT 110 POKES*1,84:POKES+6,9:POKES+24,15 120 Y=1:Z=INT(1299/N*45-N/2)
Give your '64
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getk$:ifk$=""then x=y-x:goto130 print"{shft clr)":pokes+24,0
'64 the modern look and color you have been want
—Joseph r. Charnetski, Dallas, pa
My program will show football fans a [mien field goal
every time, on their C-1281
10 PRINT"{SHFT CLR1FIELD GOAL BY MICHAEL I! LACKMON":FORG=3 584TO3839:POKEG,.:NEXT F0RX=1T04:READS,A:F0RG=S TO A:READP:POK EG,P:NEXT:NEXT
30 COLOR0, 6:SPRCOLOR3,7:GRAPIIIC3,1 : COLOR 1 , 8:COLOR2,2:WIDTH1
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or
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drive and Ci28computer. An SOcolumn monllor is required SDU
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,255,3661,3710,20,,,20,,,21,,,20,,,16
128,,20,,,63,,,51,,,51,,,51,,,51,,,63 140
DATA192,3725,3773,20,0,0,20,0,0,21,32,
150
DATA2 40,2,40,192,2,43,192,,23,,,63,,,6
160
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I programmed this short top-row keyboard piano for quick Circle 144 on Header Service ca'd.
key response. I End i< nice to play simple- nines on. The
number row is For sharps and flats, and the second row is for regular notes.
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64
F%=1145:DATA6 2,59,9,8,1 4,17,16,22,19,25
40
FORZ=0TO127:POKE4 9152+Z,0:NEXT:FORZ=1TO
50
F%=T%:POKE4 9152+K%,T%/256:POKE4 9216 + K%,
60
(T%/256-PEEK(4 9152+K%))*2 56:NEXT DATA 166,197,189,0,192,201,0,240,247,14
,24,30,33,32,38,35,41,46,43,49,48,54
22:READK%:T%=21UP ARROW)(1/12)*F%+.5
1,1,212,189,64,192,141
70
DATA 0,212,228,197,240,252,169,0,141,1, 212,141,0,212,76,128,192,0
80
forz=0to32:reada%:poke49280+z,a%:next
90 print"(2 crsr dns}simple piano by andre w
senft":sys49280
—Andrew Senpt, auburn, ny
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displays by creating "reflections" of your drawings. Use a joystick in pon I to draw by moving the cursor around the hi-res screen. Draw in the lower-lcli corner, so the cursor
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REM
20 S=54272:FORZ=STOS+27:POKEZ,0:NEXT:POKES
NDVHMBKR lilW
REM REFLECTIONS - JON ALLEN SLOW:GRAPHIC1,1:COLOR0,1:COLOR1,8
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$44C Basic Scrambler
^™-—^—^
Sometimes a need for program security arises, and my
li;isii- Scrambler program offers some measure of protection. To use it, just load it and run ii to poke the machine language into memory. Then load the program you wan! to proim and enter SYS49I32,<codel>i<code2>. The codes can be any two different numbers from (> to 255 (for example, SYS49152,10,2O). Alter a program is scrambled, save loaded as usual, but when you li.si it, primed lo the screen. To unscramble tlie same, procedure used to scramble it,
5
REM
10
64
BASIC
SCRAMBLER
-
It lo disk. It can be only garbage will be the program, follow using the same codes.
RICHARD
EXT
IFC<>26195THEN?RINT"CHECK DATA!":ST0P
20
POKE50000,0:POKE50001,0:POKE770,164:POK E771,192
25
PRINT"{SHFT CLRHCRSR DNJBASIC SCRAMBLE R ENABLED":PRINT"{CRSR DN}SYS 49152, [0 -255], [0-255] - TO USE" 30 DATA 32,241,183,142,82,195,32,241,183,1 42,83,195,165,43,133,251,165,44
DATA
133,252,160,0,32,38,192,177,251,77
,82,195,77,83,195,145,251,76
40
DATA
22,192,165,251,197,45,208,6,165,25
2,197,46,240,12,230,251,165,251
45
DATA 201,0,240,1,96,230,252,96,152,145, 251,32,50,192,145,251,32,50
50
DATA
192,145,251,165,43,133,251,165,44,
133,252,32,50,192,32,50,192,32
55
DATA 50,192,32,50,192,177,251,201,0,208 ,247,32,50,192,165,252,72,165
60
DATA
65
DATA
70
DATA
75
DATA
251,72,165,43,133,251,165,44,133,2
52,104,145,251,32,50,192,104,1 45 251,76,123,227,215,72,152,72,8,160
,0,177,187,201,36,240,14,165 44,141,80,195,169,255,133,44,169,1
,141,81,195,40,104,168,104,76 165,244,169,131,141,48,3,169,192,1
41,49,3,173,81,195,201,1,208
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REM
DELETE 64
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63991 63988
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