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  From:    K2F (John Davis)              
  Subject: Oops!                         
                                         
    (There doesn't seem to be an "Oops!" 
  section in 8BS, so CCC will have to    
  do.)                                   
    If you had a go at "NOTaLOT" in      
  8BS-54, and did well at it, you may    
  have found that it claims to restrict  
  your kitty to `75, but doesn't. This   
  tends to establish a runaway "No Lose" 
  situation (though maybe you prefer     
  that...). (Like the casino which had   
  a sign saying "WE NEVER CLOSE", but    
  the 'C' went out.)                     
    If you want to fix this, just add    
  line:                                  
   2225 IF`%>75 `%=75                    
                                         
  That's 'pound sign'%, if it happens to 
  be printing as something strange here. 
                                         
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  From:    20G (Roy Dickens)             
  Subject: NOTaLOT game in issue 54      
    John Davis's game NOTaLOT was liked  
  by me quite a lot. It was well thought 
  out and presented. I have had several  
  goes playing it and managed to win now 
  and again. It has been added to my     
  games disks collection.Thank you John. 
                                         
                                         
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  From:    20G (Roy Dickens)             
  Subject: Jonathan Harston's comments   
       The f keys of the message system  
  that Jonathan mentioned (54) are a bit 
  different I agree. I have now got used 
  to them. But if you have changed the   
  normal fkey to shift fkey Jonathan,    
  does it mean that you do not use the   
  graphic fkeys or have you changed      
  these to ctrl fkeys? If you have also  
  changed these do you now ctrl/shift    
  fkeys to get the rest ie. contiguous   
  graphics, separated graphics etc.?     
                                         
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  ReplyTo: Jonathan Harston & Brian Raw  
  From:    D5B (Jon Ripley)              
  Subject: Diary 1997 Disc Checker       
                                         
  In response to Jonathan Harston's      
  comment about my disc format checker   
  being slow, it isn't entirely true.    
                                         
  The routine itself actually takes less 
  than a second to decide on the format  
  of a disc.                             
                                         
  The function relies on DFS being       
  selected and uses the DFS read sector  
  routine. Of course this will fail if   
  the disc is ADFS.                      
                                         
  The reason why the DFS read sector     
  routine is used is because the ADFS    
  read sector routine can take around a  
  minute when deciding that a disc is    
  DFS.                                   
                                         
  Gripes aside though, Jonathan says     
  that if your program pauses for any    
  reason it is always best to let the    
  user know what is (or isn't) happening!
                                         
                                         
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