USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. 8 Bit 8 BIT SOFTWARE ISSUE 27 8 BIT SOFTWARE ISSUE 27 About this issue. Part 2 About this issue. Part 2 Edited by C.J.Richardson. IN THIS ISSUE IN THIS ISSUE THE SOFTWARE THE SOFTWARE Games/Music Games/Music Lightpen menu Lightpen menu By: 2J3 Use: Lightpen menu Program name: LPenMen Associated program/file/s: none Language: Basic and Assembler General info: How many of you possess lightpens? I just knocked one up using info from the manual. If anyone is interested in a lightpen, contact me, they are VERY cheap to make (pence). And just plug into the analogue port. Instructions: Move the lightpen up and down in the left half of the screen. Your choice will be highlighted. When the program of your choice is selected, move the pen across the screen to the WHITE area. There are four pages to the menu, making a possible total of 80 entries. You can adapt the menu for your own discs quite easily. The DATA statements at the end of the program hold the 4 pages of file info. Entries are as follows: DATA ?? Repeated 20 times for each of the four pages. ADFS users will need to change DFS instructions such as *DR. to *DIR etc. B$ and C$ are defined at the start of the program and can be altered to insert the correct instructions for the particular filing system. For DFS: B$ is *DR. 0 C$ is "" For ADFS: B$ is *DIR $ C$ is the sub directory Supreme Supreme By: Lars Osterballe Use: Space trading zapping adventure Program name: Supreme Associated program/file/s: Suprem1/2 Language: Basic Do a hard break before running this. Comic strip Comic strip By: 20G Use: Humour Program name: ComicSt Associated program/file/s: none Language: Basic General info: A mode 7 comic strip Music music By: Use: Music Program name: Warring Associated program/file/s: none Language: Basic General info: Ten music files compacted into one menu driven program. Ideal for a disc such as this. Pictures Pictures By: 15A Use: Graphics Program name: F.Plus F.Table Associated program/file/s: Picload Language: Basic+data General info: Info by 15A The Plus and Table files were provided with the Archimedes PD raytracer QRT, and have been converted to mode 2 screens. They use the colours to give a greyscale, so a mono monitor or television is needed to view them correctly without printing them out. Can Can Can Can By: L1J Use: Music and graphics Program name: CanCan Associated program/file/s: CanMc2 Language: Basic+M/C : Cantitl General info: The program 'CanCan' consists of three files: the Basic file 'CanCan' which calls the other two files, 'CanMC2' and 'CanTitl'. This is simply a popular tune from the Jacques Offenbach's opera 'Orphee aux enfers' (or 'Orpheus in the Underworld'). I have decided to send this program not for its musical contents but to demonstrate a non- standard technique to join two screens. First you should produce a picture on the screen (or you should load a picture) and then you overlay this picture with another screen file using OPENUP (or OPENIN) as well as BGET# instructions. The screen bites can be ANDed (as in the 'CanCan' program), ORed or EORed, giving different effects. O f course, both pictures must be in the same graphic mode. Try, for example, such a program: 10 MODE 1:*LOAD "ScreenOne" 3000 20 F%=OPENIN("ScreenTwo") 30 FOR I%=&3000 TO &7FFF 40 B%=BGET_F% 50 ?I%=?I% OR B%: REM you can change this line into ?I%=?I% AND B% or else into ?I%=?I% EOR B% 60 NEXT 70 *SAVE "MixScreen" FFFE3000 FFFE300: REM if the result is satisfactory where "ScreenOne" and "ScreenTwo" are two different screen files. Time Time By: 2J3 Use: Tell the time Program name: Time Associated program/file/s: None Language: Basic General info: I wrote this program for my son when he was having trouble telling the time. The instructions are contained in the program which uses a clock to teach the time in 5 different ways. If the program finds SPEECH on the disc then the clock will also speak. Program rating questionnaire Program rating questionnaire By: 2J3 Use: Data collection Program name: RatQ Associated program/file/s: RatQdat Language: Basic Instructions: See the separate article available from the main menu. One Line Word Processor One Line Word Processor By: 15A (Steven Flintham Use: One liner entry. Word processor Program name: WordPrc Associated program/file/s: none Language: Basic Instructions: Text by 15A This is Steven's entry for the one- liner competition. It is a very basic wordprocesor, which allows you to enter text and edit it using the DELETE key. Pressing RETURN has no effect at all - if you want to go to a new line, you must use spaces to fill the current one. Pressing CTRL-@ terminates the program by printing out your text. The program only allows text to be one screen in length, and there are no facilities to stop you DELETEing back past the start or typing over the end. Despite all this, it is sufficiently useable to run off a quick letter or something - and you should be able to fit it on a function key. You could extend this program by adding a VDU command at the start to set up your printer for NLQ printing or something. This should be possible without extending the program over one line. Test cards Test Cards By: James Dallas Use: Self test database Program name: Cards Associated program/file/s: C.Maths Language: Basic GCSE Multiple Choice Question Cards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by James Dallas This is Public Domain software. Please copy it and distribute it to your friends. Nobody should charge you for this program except for a copying charge and the cost of the disc that it is on. This simple program allows you to test yourself on multiple choice questions that you have previously entered. The program is fairly self explanatory. The main menu covers all the options. You can edit, load, save, print and delete cards. You can also test yourself on the cards in memory and issue * commands. To enter some cards press 1. Enter your question, three optional answers and the number of the correct one. Then you can move about within the 100 cards or exit. This will take you back to the main menu. You can now save your cards. Do not use any drive or directory roots as all files are saved in directory C. The delete option wipes all cards in memory. The print option prints out the cards of your choice. The codes within the program are for a * EPSON compatible printer (including Panasonic KX-P1081's ). These can be changed for another printer if you wish. The program was developed on a BBC B with 1770 DFS, BASIC II and OS 1.2. There is no reason why it should not work with 8271 DFS and BASIC I. PRESS BREAK FOR MENU PRESS BREAK FOR MENU