8-bit Software Disc Magazine (c) Duncan Webster DEC 1991
Issue 17 December 1991
Messages / Help Wanted
348: Gary Davies
RE: Assembley Langauge
For some time now I have been trying to write some FAST routines for
handling floating point numbers in assembly language. This has gone
with a very small amount of success because my routines are generally
very slow. Does anyone have any good routines which they would care
to donate?
348: Gary Davies
RE: Basic II Entry Points.
Kind of linked to my previous message about floating point number
routines. Does anyone have a complete list of all the BASIC II entry
points (ie the addresses within the BASIC ROM of all the routines). I
have seen lists for some of the other BASIC versions (ie. BASIC V) but
nobody seems to know any of them for BASIC II the only one which I
have got is for the INPUT routine which is at address &BC05. The big
questions which everyone is thinking about is, what about the rest
(ie. PRINT, RND, SIN, TAN etc..)?
7GE: Matthew Price
RE: Gameboy
Does anyone have any GameBoy cartridges that they would like to swap
and/or sell? Please contact me through 8BS in the normal way.
483: D.G. Shimmin
RE: Play by Mail
It seems from issue 16 that quite a few members are interested in PBM.
I do not have time to write a PBM column yet, but if anyone else is
interested ... I think some people should try to write PBM games for
themselves as it is not difficult to achieve fairly good results.
Would you beleive the commercial game Crisis is written in BASIC?
483: D.G. Shimmin
RE: Mixmania Discs
It is mentioned that TYB's Mixmania 2 Vols. I and II are only
compatible with the BBC B. Can anyone confirm that this is correct or
can they be made to work on a Master 128?
483: D.G. Shimmin
RE: ASCII Text Display
Does anyone know of, or can easily write a piece of software to
display ASCII text files in 80 column mode? It has to do the
following ...
1. Work in Mode 3 (ie. shadow or SRAM NOT available).
2. Scroll UP and DOWN using cursor keys
3. Hold large chunks in memory to avoid constant disc accessing.
4. Fairly fast, efficient and User Friendly operation.
From 0E7: F.W. Nevin
To YJ2: A. Snodgrass
I know that BEEBUG are at present advertising some 'Stiff' disc
covers at 3 per 100 plus 1 postage. This may be of interest
to you.
0E7: F.W. Nevin
RE: VIEW Highlights
When highlight 1 is entered in VIEW, text is underlined when
a Printer Driver is used. I have a CENTRONICS GLP which does not
like this instrucation and only underlines text if highlight 2 is
used and vice versa. Can any one help in this matter please?.
0E7: F.W. Nevin
RE: A&B Computing
Does anyone have a copy of A&B Computing around the period 6/86
which carried a series of programmes which drew a map of the world
for diferrent eras. If so do they have the series of programmes
and could they let me have copies. My copies have been corrupted
and I would if possible like to retore them. Needless to say A&B
Computing have been of no help whatsoeever in this matter.
From 2GJ: Roger Pashby
To 7GE: Matthew Price
Yes, I would be very keen to get involved in a football director PBM
game (or indeed any game). I would be glad to read a PBM column.
Editor Note: Football Director is not a computer game but a postal one
(I think). All members who expressed an interest have
been sent an infomation card kindly supplied by Matthew
Price.
2GJ: Roger Pashby
RE: Exile
I have a copy of Exile plus all the accompanying material. I will
swap for a copy of either the Soccer Game from Superior or preferably
the 4th Dimension soccer game or Holed Out.
Editor Note: I have a copy of Superior Soccer - it's rubbish and you
are welcome to it for nothing - just let me know.
348: Gary Davies
RE: Amx Art Packages Discussion
For the past few months I've been looking at AMX ART and AMX
PAGEMAKER, which are two packages I just bought cheaply secondhand
etc. They seem great stuff except to my horror (and confusion) the
FONTs are not transferable (seems strange coming from the same
company???).
To save a bit of time I figured out how the fonts are stored and wrote
two programs, the first being "BF_AMX" which stands for "Beebfont to
AMX ART" which converts any fonts you may have created on "Beebfont"
into 3 icon files as used by AMX ART. These can then be edited and
combined within AMX ART to produce a single working font file (AMX ART
ONLY).
The other program was "BF_PM" which converts Beebfont files to AMX
Pagemaker. Funnily enough Beebfont and the AMX ART font files are
almost identical so it will also convert the AMX ART font files to AMX
Pagemaker etc (ie GOUDA, CHEDDA, EDAM etc). This leads on to my
question which is also to do with FONTS ...
I would like to start collecting a few fonts myself mainly because I
am so hopeless at thinking up them myself! (plus is takes absolutely
ages!). So if anyone else has any of the above with any fonts they
want to donate then please send them in for future publication.
Both the transfer programs can be selected from the issue 17 main
menu. Alternatively you can copy the transfer routines to your own
disc - the filenames appear on side 2 of the disc under the M
directory.
FROM: Duncan Webster
TO: M8M (Peter Smith)
RE: Your Letter
Thanks for your long letter - ROM images actually work now as you can
see by me puttin them on the disc. Keep in TUCH was a spelling
mistake - it was meant to be Keep in TOUCH. Nice to learn you now
have a Master 128.