USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. 8 Bit 8-BIT SOFTWARE ISSUE 40 8-BIT SOFTWARE ISSUE 40 Edited by C.J.Richardson. About This Issue. About This Issue. IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! Issue 41 Deadline 9th March Issue 41 Deadline 9th March Issue 41 Issue 23rd March Issue 41 Issue 23rd March Send your submissions, formatted disc, 50p, return postage and packing to: The New 8BS Questionnaire. The New 8BS Questionnaire. The 8BS Questionnaire is to be found on TBI-00, the 8BS catalogue/info disc. If you have not completed one and sent it in to 8BS, you are invited to do so. Send in your copy of TBI-00 for update Send in your copy of TBI-00 for update TBI-00, the 8BS catalogue/info/utility disc is available as ADFS or DFS. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, IN THIS ISSUE TN THIS ISSUE The Magazine The Magazine About This Issue. About This Issue. The article you are reading now. Program Documentation Program Documentation. Info for programs that do not contain their own documentation. Messages and ads. Messages and ads. In several sections. Help, Adverts and General Comments. Messages to you. Messages to you. The Reactor THe Reactor Comments on programs. Editorial Editorial Suggested Contacts. Suggested Contacts. 8BS Messaging System Info 8BS Messaging System Info Book Loan Offer. Book Loan Offer. 8BS Member K6L offers the loan of books. The History Of 8BS. Part 2. The History Of 8BS. Part 2. Duncan Webster concludes his history of 8BS. Daniel, it's your turn next, part 4 is already written! DFS Commands. DFS Commands. Info on the Disc Filing System commands for people without a manual. Very useful for newcomers. By Trevor Crapper. TBI Totals. TBI Totals. A sorted list of the most popular. 8BS Membership List. 8BS Membership List. Lists of 8BS members sorted by name and also ID. Disc Formats. Disc Formats. Technical info for those interested in other disc formats. Combinations. Combinations. Number combinations by 3PM outlining the Combinations theory forming the basis of the weighing problem in Issue 38. Palindromic Numbers. Palindromic Numbers. An article by 3PM. Merging Programs. Merging Programs. Following on from his article and example in issue 39, K7T sends us a further article backed up with a practical application. Addresses. How Do They Do That? Mow Do They Do That? A little light relief from Mick York. A slightly dubious explanation of how your PSU works. THE SOFTWARE THE SOFTWARE Utilities Utilities 8BS Messaging System. V 1.07 8BS Messaging System. V 1.07 By: 15A Use: Message Utility Program name: SendMes Associated program/file/s: SendMC Language: BASIC+M/C QMesInf Please read the info file. The info file on this issue is a very abridged one. For full info please read the documentation on TBI-00. Spreadsheet. Spreadsheet. By: K6N (B.Raw) Program name: SC_EXE DATA SC_MC Source Code: SC_ASS Data Files: Fil_eg1 Fil_std Language: BASIC+M/C Please read the program documentation article for more info from Brian. 3D Magic Eye From A Typewriter. 3D Magic Eye From A Typewriter. By: K4D (Lorin Knight) Program name: Type3D DATA 3DPic Language: BASIC Purpose: Shows how 3D pictures can be created with a typewriter or word processor. Machine Code Relocation. Machine Code Relocation. By: K6Q (L.T.Roberts) Program name: Change Language: BASIC Assembler Assembles a program that will relocate machine code programs for you. Please read the Program Documentation article available from the main menu. Split And Join Files. Split And Join Files. By: 2J3 (Chris Richardson) Program names: Split Join Language: BASIC Intended for splitting large text files into manageable lumps, and then joining the split files back together. Please see the program documentation article. Number Combinations. Number Combinations. By: 3PM (DP-J) Program name: Combi Language: BASIC An example program to go with the magazine article on the same subject. Merging Programs. Addresses. Merging Programs. Addresses. By: K7T (D.Ambrose) Program name: Address Dat1 Dat2 Dat3 Language: BASIC An example program to go with the magazine article on merging programs. Games and Demos Games and Demos Lottery. Choose Numbers. Lottery. Choose Numbers. By: K8B (A.Brandon) Use: Find occurrence of numbers. Program name: Lotter3 Andy wrote this program on the first day of the national lottery. It chooses numbers at random and counts the occurrences. A highly dubious method, no more dubious than any other though. If you win using this I will expect you to buy the whole PD library! ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Lottery. Choose Numbers. Lottery. Choose Numbers. By: K2H (R.Boyce) Use: Select Numbers At Random. Program name: NatLot4 Has Ron cracked it with this one? Full info in the program. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Dominoes. Dominoes. By: K8F (Stuart Angell) Use: Game Program name: DOM Doms1 Info by Stuart in the program documentation article. A two player game. Guide your dominoes around the screen. Be the last to have your dominoes topple. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Ugly. Poem. Ugly. Poem. By: Fred Price Use: Print out a poem Program name: Ugly Fred sends us another masterpiece that goes straight to the printer. Info from Fred in the program documentation article. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Lottery. Simulation. Lottery. Simulation. By: K2K (Peter Davy) Use: Simulate the lottery. Program name: Lotter5 Please read the program documentation article for the info on this polished program by Peter. I have re-named the program from the name Simlott to Lotter5 to keep track of the lottery programs. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,