19/April/2013 Edited By C.J.Richardson Edited By C.J.Richardson Next Issue Details Next Issue Details There are no plans for issue 68 Getting Around This 8BS Magazine Getting Around This 8BS Magazine To find out how to use the menu and how to obtain the various 'Text Viewing' options, press the red key marked f0 when viewing the Main Menu. Program Info Menu Program Info Menu This menu contains all the info for the software on this issue. Messages Messages A couple of old messages not put onto 8BS-66 plus a couple of new ones. Articles Menu Articles Menu Editorial (in the main menu) Detokenising BASIC Article and Program *Command Article And Programs It's Full Of Stars. From Dave Edwards Prisoner's Dilemma Competition John Kortink's GoSDC Title 8BS Messaging System 2.16 Author S.Flintham Use Message all or one File Name SendMes Language Basic/Assembler Please read the info file available from the Program Info Menu. Title Detokenise BASIC Author K8G Use Detokenise any BBC BASIC File Name J.DtokenB Language Basic/Assembler K8G sends us this article (available from the Articles Menu) and program Demonstrating and explaining how to detokenise BASIC on any BBC machine. Title * Commands Author K8G Use Writing * Commands To Run In BASIC Memory Language Basic/Assembler File Name Files in directory J K8G sends us this article (available from the Articles Menu) and 4 demo programs on how to run star commands that will run in BASIC memory. Please note that some of the demo programs save to disc when RUN, it is advisable to copy them to a new disc before running. As a safeguard, if you select any of the demos from the 8BS Magazine menu, the selection will only LOAD and then LIST the BASIC program. Title Rescue ADFS Author K8G Use Rescue Lost Catalogue Language Basic File Name MkMap Another very useful one from K8G. This ADFS utility will help you rebuild an ADFS catalogue that you have lost. A description of the software and how to use it can be found in the Program Documentation section of this magazine. Remember, it is ADFS only, so you will need to switch to that filing system before trying to run it. Title Prisoner's Dilemma Author S.Flintham Use Programming Competition Language Basic File Name Comp1 This program is accompanied by an explanatory article available from the Articles Menu. It was initially submitted to 8BS 31 as an idea for a competition but there were no responses to it. I have put it here in the hope that some of you may be inspired to have a go. Title The Beeb at 30 Image Mode 1 File Name I.Beeb30c A photograph taken from http://beeb30. havnet.positive-internet.com/ On Sunday 25th March 2012 an event was held to celebrate the Beeb's 30th birthday at ARM Fulbourn Rd Cambridge. Left to Right in the photo are: Sophie Wilson, Chris Turner, Steve Furber, Chris Serle, Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry. Photo by Terry Harris Title GoSDC Image Mode 2 File Name I.GoSDC A photograph of John Kortink's GoSDC. See the article about this in the Articles Menu. Title Three More Images Images Mode 1 File Names Directory I Side 0 and 2 Three photographs transferred from mobile telephone and digital camera. Transferred to the BBC using the Windows utility Image2BBC. After selecting an image from the Games/Demos Menu, the image is loaded in using a simple BASIC program which then waits for a keypress before you will be returned to the main menu. The images are: CB750, Home Made BBC and Master 128 Title Teletext Graphics Images Collection File Name TTXTC A compilation of 8BS teletext graphics Title Sparse Invaders By Neil Beresford File Names P.SpILoad P.SpIn Taken from www.retrosoftware.co.uk this program is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license. Ideally, the documentation for GPL should accompany the program. It does not in this case as it is quite voluminous and takes up a large part of a DFS disc even when compressed. So instead, here is a link to the info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ GNU_General_Public_License The text file is also included in the zip of this magazine disc image Title Airwolf Master Conversion From Carlo Concari (CNC) File Name Wolf1MP Info from Carlo in the General Messages This program will convert Airwolf to work on the Master Title Tetris From Carlo Concari (CNC) File Name Files in directory t Info from Carlo in the General Messages This program originally written for the Master Compact will only work on that or the Master 128. Carlo has converted the original ADFS to DFS so that it will run from this issue. Also included with 8BS-67 are separate copies of the game on ADFS and DFS. REQUIRES RAM banks 4, 5 and 6 to be writeable Title Hard Hat Harry 2 By Tom Walker File Name Files in directory H This game by Tom Walker is covered by the GNU GPLv3 license viewable on line at the link mentioned previously in this article, the text is also provided along with this magazine disc image. The game was downloaded from retrosoftware.co.uk