To : C83 and 999 (All)
From : 2J3 (Chris Richardson)
Subject: Ecg simulation/monitoring.
Text :
Wiring yourself up to your micro to
monitor your heart rate sounds like an
interesting idea. I notice from the
survey that you are into electronics.
Can you rig up something that would do
the job? I think the software to run it
would be relatively simple to write.
It is not entirely advisable to monitor
yourself though! After all, you should
see normal sinus rhythm at a rate of
about 72. Anything other than that and
it is probably better that you don't
know about it.
To : 999 (All members)
From : 2J3 (Chris Richardson.)
Subject: Music
Text :
Some time ago now, I saw a program that
allowed you to write music in four
columns down the screen as the actual
notes ie A E F# etc. You could also
edit envelopes with the same program.
The program displayed the envelope on
screen as a wave form, you could alter
the wave form to alter the sound of the
envelope. The program has disappeared.
Has anyone got a PD program similar to
this? Or can anyone write something
to do the job?
To : 24K and 999 (All)
From : 2J3 (Chris Richardson.)
Subject: Teletext converter. 7TO3
Text :
You can read text from a different
drive using the converter 7TO3 by
entering :1.<NAME> (assuming you want
to read from drive 1).
Read the REM lines at the start of 7TO3
to find out how you can convert other
files. Or save the conversion to disc.
The program should read any file.
INTERWORD, VIEW, EDIT, teletext files,
even BASIC. It will convert them all to
plain ASCII.
To : 999 (All members)
From : 2J3 (Chris Richardson.)
Subject: For Sale
Text :
For sale. A large amount of odds and
ends mainly for the BBC Model B.
Acorn colour/green monitor. Cover.
Plinth.
BBC Model B with Watford DDFS.
Twin watford disc drive 5.25/3.5 40/80
Single Pace disc drive 5.25 DS.
Datacorder. Twin joysticks.
BBC User guide. Advanced user guide.
30 Hour Basic.
Software on disc. The Bank Manager.
Castle of riddles. Arcadians. Draughts
and Reversi. Time and magik. SPEECH!
The Gold collection. Revs.
Knitwear designer. Funschool. Nursery
rhymes. Cheat it again Joe 4.
Software on tape: Escape from moonbase
alpha. Laser command. Winged warlords.
Felix in the factory. Manic miner. The
Mine. Mini office. 10 computer hits.
Graphic adventure creator. Lord of the
Rings. Getset. Numberfun. Tablesums.
Alien 8.
Roms: Viewstore. Mega 3 includes Inter
-sheet. Inter-chart. Inter-word. Pascal
All of these items are in pristine
condition complete with Manuals and
original wrappings.
The owner of all these things has said
that he wants £250 for the lot. However
I understand that probably nobody wants
all of this, more likely, some of you
want the odd bit. Therefore I shall be
open to offers for the bits you fancy.
Contact me at:
17 Lambert Park Road.
Hedon
HULL
HU12 8HF.
Or Phone 0482 896868.
To : 999 (All members)
From : 483 (D.G.Shimmin)
Subject: Mandelbrots, parallel
processing, Econets etc.
Text :
Further to the discussion of this in
issue 22, I have now met someone who at
one stage wrote a program which
involved fifteen Econet stations
simultaneously co-operating on the
calculation of a single Mandelbrot
image, with the fileserver collating
the data. Not that this brings any
particular advantage to anyone, I just
thought I'd mention it.
Incidentally the last time I spoke to
Hugh Williams he was thinking of daisy
-chaining six 32-bit processors, which
would probably provide quite a parallel
processing system!
Meanwhile M.T. Farnworth has proved
that my machine can run three times as
fast as a standard Master by parallel
processing with the internal 65C102. We
don't quite know what to do with it yet
though.
To : 999 (All members)
From : 483 (D.G.Shimmin)
Subject:
Text :
I just thought I'd remind you; if you
want issue 24 please send a disk,
return P&P and fifty pence to the
following address:
D.G. Shimmin
1 Oakwood Drive
Heaton
BOLTON
BL1 5EE
I will try to distribute issue 24
before Christmas (though I make no
guarantees, and even if I finish it by
20th December it won't reach everyone
in time anyway). In any case ensure
that your disk etc. reaches me well
before 12th January 1993. THE DEADLINE
FOR SUBMISSIONS TO ISSUE 24 IS 12TH
DECEMBER 1992 - please try to send any
text or software you have written/have
obtained/can possibly write. I have all
sorts of things planned for issue 24
but I can't remember what they are just
now; I look forward to hearing from you
all again.
To : 15A and 999 (Steven Flintham)
From : 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: Floppy disc supplies
Text :
One of the cheapest places I have found
for buying discs is:
Manor Court Supplies
Glen Celyn House
Penybont
Llandrindod Wells
Powys
LD1 5SY.
Prices for 5.25 inch discs:
Unbranded DSDD £24 per 100.
Benchmark tested DSDD £28 per 100.
Prices for 3.5 inch discs:
DSDD unbranded £39 per 100.
Benchmark tested £45 per 100.
Editor: Does anybody fancy going halves
on this one? If any other member or
members want to buy a smaller quantity
of discs I would be willing to buy in a
large quantity to re-distribute at
no profit/loss of course.
Anyone interested drop me a line at:
17 Lambert Park road
Hedon
Hull
HU12 8HF
or 0482 896868 or page 2J3 in this
column and we could take it from there.
Just one other member interested in 50
at 28 pence each would suit me down to
the floor.
To : C83 and 999 (D. Stillman)
From : 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: DIY hardware projects
Text :
Further to my note in the last issue I
have now all 12 issues of the series
Microcomputer Interfacing Techniques
which appeared in Everyday Electronics,
running to some 90 pages if anyone is
interested I can be contacted at:
153 Firth Park Road
Sheffield
S5 6WU.
Greenweld Electronics Ltd
27 Park Road
Southampton
SO1 3TB.
Are advertising a book called "Sensing
and Control Projects for the BBC",
price £2.00. Two kits containing all
parts required are available as the
book is divided into two distinct
sections:
kit 1 - Analogue to Digital Converter
Projects, price £12.00.
kit 2 - User port Projects, price
£22.00, the book is free with either
kit.
To : 999 (All members)
From : 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: Disc exchange
Text :
Does anyone want to exchange Micro
User, Acorn User, Beebug discs I have
quite a few and would like to complete
my collection if possible, if anyone
is interested and would like a list
please send an SAE to me at:
153 Firth
Park Road
Sheffield
S5 6WU.
To : 999 (All Members)
From : 19F (Theo Gray)
Subject: Sound Envelopes
Text :
I am at the moment coding a Guns 'n'
Roses tune, but am not very good at
working out envelopes. Please could
anyone help out by writing me an
envelope for the following instruments:
Solo Guitar: needs to be a FLUENT but
DISTORTED sound (heavy rock sound)
Voice: must sound like voice - fairly
fluent
Bass: simple, fluent, sustaining,
clean, low-pitched sound
Snare Drum )
High Tom )
Middle Tom )- for channel 0
Bass Drum )
Cymbal )
To : 999 (All Members)
From : Andrew Snodgrass (YJ2)
Subject: DFS=>ADFS Utility
Text :
This is the program I have been looking
for for ages, but there are many
improvements which could be
implimented.
It would be useful to have:
1) An option for copying just drive 2
with a single drive.
2) A display to show approximately how
many disk swaps are needed on a single
drive.
3) The ability to go back a step if an
error occurs, as often on my switchable
40/80 track single drive the program
aborted if I forgot to change the
switch when copying from 40(DFS) to
80(ADFS) tracks.
4) Would it be possible to utilitise
the sideways ram which many of 8-bit
software members possess. (The shadow
ram on the Master could also be used?!)
5) A more colourful display (please
keep the MODE 7 teletext display)
making the user interface more
friendly. Incidently I like the way the
program shows the files as they are
being transferred.
To : 999 (All Members)
From : Andrew Snodgrass (YJ2)
Subject: Tape to DFS/ADFS transfer
Text :
While on the subject of file transfer
between formats. Is it possible to
transfer cassette programs with strange
filenames e.g. ? and F#I#L#E and long
adventure games such as "Kingdom Of
Hamil" (from Acornsoft) using the tape
to disc program in issue9.
Also, is it possible to transfer
programs with alternating filenames
(e.g. Geoff Capes Strongman, and
Arkanoid). I own all these games and am
extremely frustrated at the long times
it takes to load them from cassette.
Please help as I do not have great
knowledge in file transfer!! (You may
even have written a program of your own
which covers this).
To : 999 (All Members)
From : Andrew Snodgrass (YJ2)
Subject: Re: Roms
Text :
I recently received some ROMS from a
friend, but they did not come with
instructions and my friend could not
enlighten me on their use. The ROMS in
question are:
1) The "Enigma Disc Imager"
*HELP=Enigma DISC Imager
2) The "Mouse Pac Driver"
*HELP=MOUSE PAC Driver ROMv1.2
3) The "Bitstick Rom"
*HELP=BITSTICK ROM 2.0 twin mode?
4) *HELP=STL Linemaster 0.10
5) Altra PROBE
*HELP=Altra PROBE 4.02
*HELP PROBE produces more commands, but
I do not know how to use them.
6) *HELP=DIARY 1.1 -
DIARY =DIARY/PLANNER (c) INTERSOFT 1985
by J.Barden & CREATE M.Lam?
Can anyone help ?!?
To : 999 (All Members)
From : Andrew Snodgrass (YJ2)
Subject: Games help
Text :
Here are some transporter codes for
Network (PIAS 15):
009463, 012964, 021151
Please can somebody help me with the
"Last Ninja 2". What is the red/yellow
object beside the wall that you have to
climb to get the stick and where/when
do you use it?
Has anyone discovered how to get past
the empty room on the last level (6,
Kunitoki Castle).
To : 999 (All Members)
From : Andrew Snodgrass (YJ2)
Subject: Article suggestion
Text :
Somebody could start a series (similar
to the machine code one **where is that
next article!!?**) featuring hints and
tips for using word processors, art
packages, and BBC BASIC e.g. useful
*FX, GCOL, PLOT and VDU commands.
To : 2J3
From : Andrew Snodgrass (YJ2)
Subject: Suggestion for trading game
Text :
Could there possibly be an arcade
sub-game where you have to navigate
the ship to the next port with hazards
such as hurricanes, whirlpools, storms,
mines and mutinies?
To : 999 (All Members)
From : Andrew Snodgrass (YJ2)
Subject: Creating Patterns
Text :
How were the patterns created in
the TILES program, I have looked at the
program, but I still don't understand.
To : 999 (All)
From : 24K
Subject: Discs
Text :
Do you need to use High Density disks
with ADFS or will DS/DD do?