8-Bit Software Online Conversion

                                                                             Edited by C.J.Richardson.                                                     Send your submissions, formatted   disc, 50p, return postage and   packing to:                                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!                  TBI-00, the 8BS catalogue/info/utility disc is available as ADFS or DFS.              I thought that I should mention this in a prominent place after receiving a number of queries asking how to print out these articles. Just select the item you wish to print out from the main menu as if you were going to read it. Press P instead of RETURN. The printout routine will then be loaded. For more info, press f0 from the main menu.                        The article you are reading now.     Info for programs that do not contain their own documentation.       In several sections this time. Help, Adverts and General Comments.       From other members and myself.     Comments on programs.       A regular feature. These are people worth contacting.         A quick explanation of the messaging system.     By Brian Raw. An article to go with the digital analysis program.             By K6X. Pushing forward the frontiers of literature (according to Paul).     Fred Price sends us another poem. Have your printer switched on ready!     From K5P. Andrew Fay. Answer next time. Print it out by pressing "P" from the main menu.         K5B Starts a new series about the Master 512.     An article from Lorna Jenne.       You can obtain these discs of software directly from J.G.Harston or 8BS.             Richard Chamberlain is willing to lend out books. Here is the list.                                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.          By: L1M Program names: StartTD Romsl Language: BASIC+Assembler Janny Looyenga's husband has written these two utilities that I have not been able to test out. StartTD will initialise the Solidisk SWR. Romsl will save and load programs from the Solidisk SWR.      By: K6N (Brian Raw) Program names: Diganal Dump Language: BASIC+Machine Code Please read the article on this subject first! An interesting project by Brian.        By: K8G (Jonathan Harston) Program names: Scroll disp Language: BASIC+Machine Code This program is a scrolling text file reader. All the 80 column ASCII files in this issue are read using this program. Please read the documentation available from magazine menu 2. If you print out the documentation you will notice it is full of odd characters. This is due to the codes that cause underline etc on the screen. Hopefully this will be sorted out by the next issue.                  By: K2O (Stephan Richardson) Program name: 8BS LDPIC 8BSld Stephan digitised the show snaps. Here is a scanned picture from TBI-84-2      By: 6EE (Mick Needham) Program name: ShowPic PicLoad Mick Digitised all the show snaps. Here is one. If you want the rest, send for TBI-84-1      By: K6N (B.Raw) Program name: UnionJ Brian gave this one to me at the Acorn User show. It is his first attempt at graphics. He wanted to get this on to issue 42 for VE day but didn't quite make it.      By: D.Bradforth Program name: Postie2 Please see the Program Documentation Article for info about this game.    By: D.Bradforth Program names: Destiny Ghouls Please see the Program Documentation Article for info about these cheats.    By: D.Bradforth Program name: Archery Master only! Please see the Program Documentation article for info about this game.      By: 20G (R.Dickens) Program name: MatchIt Educational pairs game.      By: Mr Looyenga Program name: 20Four Janny's husband has written a new version of the popular dice game. I am sorry Janny, I don't know his first name!                                     