8-bit Software Disc Magazine Issue 13 - June 1991
(c) Duncan Webster 1991 (all rights reserved)
PROBLEMS & HELP WANTED
Mr J A Brook has sent in a couple of problems to do with Computer
Concept's INTERWORD ROM and H.S. William's BASDUMP (issue 12). I will
let him continue ..
F.A.O. H.S.Williams RE: BASDUMP
I am able to get the BASDUMP utility into the sideways RAM of my
Master quite easily because I have the Beebug Masterom which makes
this process very simple indeed. To try BASDUMP out, I next loaded
the Basic program ROT5 (issue 12 8BS disc) with the command *RL ROT5
and I duly got the expected message "Upload OK". How What? How do I
get it to run? Nothing happened when I tried *ROT5. Am I
misunderstanding the purpose and use of BASDUMP?
(Mr Willaims is currently away from home for a while, and will be back
in a few months. Meanwhile, has any other member had success with the
BASDUMP ROM? - Please write in and let me know)
F.A.O. Andy Nibbs Re: TECH TIPS
I have had the INTERWORD ROM for years and use it extensively,
amoungst other things for producing the text for a magazine, when I
use the "Multi-File" Facility. However, I get a very odd effect when
typing in a word at the end of a page which is of such a length that
the program inserts a carriage return so as to place that word on the
next line. Instead of then going to the next line, it goes back to
the start of the line it is on and overtypes! If I then use the
cursor down key and go to the top of the next page I will find the
last line of the previous page repeated. I then have to delete the
overtyping by going back to the last line of the previous page, use
the cursor keys to take me onto the next page, and then all will be
back to normal. What a carry on! Any idea what causes this? Could
the use of justification be responsible. It can't be the chip,
because I get the same performance using the Mega3 ROM chip, as I did
with the standard interword chip. Your comments would be very
interesting.
(Although this is primarily directed at Andy Nibbs (god help him) if
any member has found a "cure" for this then please write in).
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Continuing on, Mr F Nevin has expressed his delight at last to be able
to use a shares program, but unfortunately has run into a few
problems. Is there any way that the existing program can be amended
and checked for bugs before resubmitting for inclusion on a future
issue? - His comments are below ...
F.A.O. A S Shakoor RE: Shares Accountant
When I reload data from disc I keep getting the message "Type Mismatch
at line 1430". If in the program I then try and LOAD from disc it
appears to work. Message to the effect received that filename has
loaded with data already in memory. Is this due to my Master?
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F.A.O. ALL MEMBERS Re: Music while you Work?
Can someone write in and explain how to put tunes into programs via
software interrupts (I think). I have no idea how easy or hard this
is, but a few members have written in asking how this is done. Do we
have an interrupts expert out there? - You certainly haven't got one
here at 8BS (yet).