COMMENTS ON MEMBERS' PROGAMS
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From 0E7
Re-Inking
I like this idea and will try it out
when my present ribbon gives up the
ghost. Will any brand of marking ink
suffice or is there a recommendation?
Character Definer
I don't seem to be able to get this to
work the way I think it is intended and
can't find any key instructions. Can
further information be given please?
Presenting Poland part 2.
This is an excellent program as was
part 1. On the completion of part III
could not all three programs be
combined onto one disc and run as one
program followed up by the Polish
Carols (which are also excellent),
assuming that technicalities do not
prevent the idea?
Union Jack
Could the flag not be larger and made
to flutter with the National Anthem
being played? Rather ambitious I
suppose but nothing to 8BS programmers
(I hope).
Satellite Picture
Where's Michael?
Tax and Insurance
A very useful data bank but how does
one get the money? Hopefully this will
be updated or can the program be
modified so DIY applies?
Basic Reader
This is a very interesting programme
which would be great if one could
obtain a printout of it. Is this
possible, and if so, how?
Weights and Measures
As stated this was just asking for this
treatment. A great improvement over the
original and I don't think it can be
bettered.
ADFS Menu
Very good but I find the instructions
under the files/directories confusing:
CJR (White) Choose (Green) Directory
(Red) Program (Yellow) or $(Green)
Is the cursor floating under C of CJR
necessary, do we need CJR in the line
at all?
Why not amend the line if possible as
follows:-
Choose (White) Directory (Red) Program
(Yellow) or $(White)
This would line up better with the
files and directories. Why cannot these
be either numbered or lettered and not
a mixture of both which is confusing as
it exists. If the files were numbered
and the directories lettered this would
be more acceptable but there are some
queer characters in amongst that lot.
From E.J.Shuker ID 176
Disc Function.
A more extensive info file would be
welcome.
Picture Gallery.
How do we use this to show pictures
from Issue 22?
-- A new version of this program
appears on this issue. After selecting
it from the 8BS menu, insert the disk
with the pictures you wish to view,
choose the directory using the
program's OS command option, select the
appropriate MODE, and follow the
on-screen prompts to choose which
pictures you want displayed. Bear in
mind that archived screens will have to
be de-archived first, following the
instructions in the Issue 22 magazine.
Clock.
Excellent as it survives Break. (A
similar Master/BBC B program appeared
on the disc with December Acorn User)
Push the Bale.
Has anyone a program to allow use of a)
A Trackerball b) A switched joystick in
place of cursor or other keys?
From 20G
C.J.Richardson's version of the Unit
conversion Prog. (Issue 23)
A handy program, with colour now by
Chris. A good program improved, thank
you both.
The Issue 23 disc (C.Richardson)
C.J.Richardson as editor of this disc
was first class. He hoped that it would
be entertaining and it certainly was
with his graphics appearing now and
again. The up and down reading of the
text was helpful too.
Letterbox (S.Johnson)
Some good procedures here for different
style text and as I am a bit slow at
grasping how things work, I was very
pleased with the very detailed REMs.
Utils (John Carpenter)
Thanks John for the util
FNlen(len$,len%), the one that puts
spaces after a short INPUT. I have been
looking for this one for a program.
Your utils also helped me to understand
FN's a bit more.
From 24K
Character designer
This crashes with a 'too many dims'
error very early in the program on my
machine. Does this program work on the
B?
Samples
I enjoyed the samples contained on the
ADFS disc. Please can we have more on
the disc in the future. Is it possible
to prevent the computer corrupting the
screen?
-- Sound samples are always very
popular, but take up relatively huge
amounts of memory and do not compress
especially well (by contrast with
graphics screens, which can be
compressed to as little as 5% of their
original size). Members who are after
samples can find several megabytes of
them in the TBI pool.
The corruption of the screen is, I
think, purely due to the length of the
sample data being loaded in
over-running HIMEM. This can be avoided
on the Master when shadow memory is
being used.