To : 999 (All members)
From : 27N (John Ilsley)
Subject: Concord comms BB and wants
.....my board is down because my modem
has .....(EDITOR-ceased to function)...
.. I need a ROM image of the 27128 chip
from the inside of my WS4000 modem. We
had a power surge a few weeks ago and
my Master, Drives and Modem all went
for a burton. I have repaired my Master
and disc drives, but not the modem. Can
anyone help me out?
Does anyone have AMX stop press with
associated files to sell?
Has anyone got an NLQ font design
program for the EPSON FX80 printer?
To : 0E7 and 999 (All members)
From : 2J3
Subject: Program feedback
Thankyou for bothering to send in
comments about software I have
submitted. In reply to your suggestion
about getting a printout from the
program reader "BASREAD", there are 2
methods. The first one involves no
changes to the program at all.
When the program prompts you for a file
name hold down CONTROL+B, this switches
the printer on and all output will go
to the printer, you must then hold down
CONTROL+C to stop the printer. The
problem with this method is that the
disc catalogue will be printed also. To
get around this you need to alter the
program slightly.
LOAD"BASREAD"
335 VDU 2
345 VDU 3
The addition of these 2 lines to the
program is a very good idea.
Another broadside of comments this time
about the ADFS menu system I wrote. The
info line printed at the bottom of the
catalogue is far better when altered as
you suggest. Line 730 holds the data
which can be altered easily. I included
the CJR because that's me! The flashing
cursor could be switched off I suppose.
The characters printed alongside the
catalogue was a tricky one. The idea of
the program is that you use a single
keypress to select a program or
directory. There can be up to 47 names
in a directory. With 26 letters in the
alphabet and 10 numeric keys, that
leaves 11 characters to find. I found
the simplest way to program this was by
using ASCII codes starting with the
code for 0 increasing by 1 for each
catalogue entry up to the ASCII code
for ^. It has a slightly odd effect I
know, but that's the best I can do!
Thanks for the comments 0E7.
To : 999 (All members)
From : K1A
Subject: Kaga printer commands.
... I would like to make a suggestion
regarding the book review mentioning
Kaga printer commands.
There is a much simpler way to get
commands to the printer by means of
*FX3,10,1 and *FX3,0,0.
Use *FX3,10,1 to initialise the printer
(VDU2 not required).
Then use the printer commands direct
from your manual, replacing LPRINT with
PRINT.
When the commands are finished, use
*FX3,0,0 to reset to screen mode.
This will accept all control codes and
text and pass direct to the printer
without affecting the layout of the
screen and back to the screen without
any unneeded marks on the screen or
printer.
To : 999 (All Members)
From : 2J3 (Chris Richardson)
Subject: Software
I have a quantity of software still for
sale. Are there any offers? I am open
to any offers at all as everything must
go. To be honest, I really do need the
shelf space.
Here it is:
On disc
Knitwear designer
The Gold Collection
Revs
Speech
Nursery rhymes
Fun school (3 discs)
Cheat it again joe volume 4
On tape:
Tablesums
Numberfun
Getset
Lord of the rings
Graphic Adventure Creator
10 computer hits
Repton 2
Alien 8
I also have a BBC B, Single Cumana
drive and colour monitor for sale. Any
offers?
I also have the BBC advanced user guide
for sale. How could you resist that?
My address is:
17 Lambert Park road
Hedon
Hull
HU12 8HF
To : 999 (All members)
From : 2J3
Subject: 5.25" discs for sale
I have now purchased a large quantity
of 5.25 inch discs DS DD with the
intention of passing them on to anyone
that wants them. Buying them in bulk
enabled me to get them quite cheaply.
They cost me 27.5p each. If you want
some, any quantity from 1 upwards,
contact me, you can have them for
exactly what it cost me. That's 27.5
pence each plus whatever the postage
may be to send them on to you.
For instance:
Send £1.00p and a first class stamp, I
will send you 3 DFS formatted discs.
Or send £3.25p and I will send 10 discs
to you (this includes postage of 50p).
Anyone interested, drop me a line.
By the way, if anyone can get discs
more cheaply, please let the rest of us
know!
Write to:
C.J.Richardson
17 Lambert Park Road
Hedon
Hull
HU12 8HF
Or give me a tinkle on 0482 896868
P.S. There have been a number of
enquiries already about this offer,
homes have been found for 80 discs, it
would seem that they are good value at
this price. I shall shortly be ordering
another 100 if orders continue.
To : 999 (All)
From : 8J4
Subject: ADFS and SWR for a model B
I have very little knowledge of the
subject. Please could someone give me
advice on how and where to get and
fit SWR and ADFS into my BBC model B?
To : 999 (All)
From : 0E7
Subject: *SPOOL after my message in
issue 24
The programme that I had problems
spooling appeared in BEEBUG November 92
page 46.
I could not get the two programmes to
SPOOL after following the instructions.
Since I requested help I accidentally
*SPOOLed the two programmes. I *RUN
them I think and Hey-PRESTO (or is it
TESCO in my case) the task was
accomplished.
I think the BBCB manual gave far more
detail than the MASTER manual.
Unfortunately it is some two years
since I parted with the BEEB and I
cannot be certain that what I have done
is correct. Can anyone confirm the
correct way to *SPOOL two files please?
Let's assume you have 2 files
that you wish to join together.
Let's be adventurous and call them
FILE1 and FILE2.
Ensure that the two files are numbered
differently, ie FILE1 is numbered from
10 to 300 and FILE2 is numbered 310 to
500.
Then enter these commands:
LOAD "FILE2"
*SPOOL NEWFILE
LIST
*SPOOL
LOAD "FILE1"
*EX. NEWFILE
That's it. Don't forget to save the new
file!
To : 999 (All)
From : 0E7
Subject: Database required
Does any one have a database programme
that will run on the Master they can
supply or suggest a suitable commercial
one that will meet the following
specification please.
SPECIFICATION
A minimum of 8 fields preferably about
12.
Each field must be capable of at least
40 bytes minimum.
Capacity of 400 records minimum.
Records filed alphabetically.
A printer dump of either individual
records or a block of consecutive
records or a random selection of
records.
Only pertinent data to be dumped ie
field titles and relevant data.
Not to include key instructions etc.
The records must be capable of
amendment.
Backward and forward consecutive search
or, individual selection of records.
Amendment of the FIELD TITLE
Any further capabilities would be
considered a bonus.
Anyone written any good data programmes
lately please?
To : 999 and 6EE (Mick Needham)
From : K1B
Subject: ASIC error
Re : ASIC error. ASIC is surely BASIC,
(analogous to the way the MOS stores
BASIC variables in alphabetical lists).
So maybe one of the ROMs is mis-
handling the BRK vector and not
directing the BASIC pointer to the
first letter of an error message which
service ROMs store in &100 upwards, ie
at the bottom of the stack storage
zone.
Having read this Page 1 message, BASIC
then adds its own 'at line xxx'. Try
typing REPORT to see what this offers.
Check that the pins of the ATPL board
are firmly engaged in the motherboard
sockets IC73 & IC51. (Take care,
they're long and thin). If not, one
gets a NO BASIC message, but I suppose
intermittent contact could cause a ROM
error signal if it occurred during a
service call from the MOS.
SAVE and LOAD operate via OSFILE which
I guess prompts the MOS to put out a
service call for the current disc
filing system. This call will be passed
down from ROM 15 until the DFS ROM
accepts it. Or is it upwards from 0
with ATPL fitted, I don't remember?
Therefore could a ROM upstream of the
DFS ROM be generating the error signal
- a call to OSBYTE &BA will return the
ROM No in the X register. cf Advanced
User Guide. Or send for Dump-a-Rom!
Anyone got ATPL documentation to spare
please?
To : 999 and 483 (D.G.Shimmin)
From : K1B
Subject: ROM-AID
Sleuth is a BASIC debugger,EXMON II a
machine code monitor and Toolkit has
about 28 commands to do mainly with
BASIC prog. editing. All are by BEEBUG.
Graphics Extension ROM by Computer
Concepts has about 30 commands for
sprite manipulation, turtle graphics
and general graphic routines. I have
difficulty using EXMON, the terse
manual being aimed at experienced
coders. You can borrow my copy after 1
March. A tutorial (disk demo) would be
very welcome for the Trace and Dual
screen utility in particular. I
currently employ a blue screen to hide
the expletives.
To : 999 (All)
From : 19F (Theo Gray)
Subject: Roms
As lots of people have been asking
about Roms without manuals recently,
can anyone help me with a Tape/Disc Rom
called "TD" from Vine Micros which I've
got. I have quite a few cassette games
which I would like to run from disk,
but which do not seem to work with
other Tape-Disk copiers. (games such
as Repton through time, Bismark,
Blockbusters, and many more).
Typing "*TD" gives a title screen, with
options on. I am able to copy the
programs from Tape to Disk without any
difficulty, but have no idea how to run
them. Even after changing a file's
options and typing its letter from the
main screen, I can still not get the
programs to work, as I just get
"Searching" at the bottom of the
screen, even though the cassette motor
LED does not light, and everything
stops.
CAN ANYONE HELP??
To : 999 (All)
From : 15A (Steven Flintham)
Subject: 800k Disc format
At the risk of appearing stupid, can
anyone tell me why the Archimedes can
get 800k on a disc while 8-bit ADFS
only goes up to 640k? I know that it's
possible to achieve 720k on an 8-bit
BBC (as in Watford Electronics' DDFS),
but what enables the Archimedes to get
the extra 80k on? I think the Master
512 has an 800k disc format (or have I
been misled?) Does it have its own disc
controller or does it use the one in
the host computer - and if it does,
then why can't someone write a utility
to do something like this on a standard
Master? I know that it wouldn't be a
proper filing system, but it would be
useful for storing old files etc., and
in a similar fashion it might also be
possible to read (or even write)
Archimedes discs. This is pure
speculation - I expect there is some
reason why it's not possible (surely
someone would have done it by now if it
is), but if it won't work, I'd like to
know why.
To : 999 (All)
From : 15A (Steven Flintham)
Subject: 6EE's ASIC error
It seems likely to me that the ASIC
error is related to the word BASIC.
I don't think it's a proper error -
I've looked through the BASIC ROM a few
times and I haven't noticed it
(although I didn't carry out a thorough
search). It's probably caused by a bad
connection somewhere, but failing that,
it could be just a variant on the
OSCLIPLOTSIN type of error. I think
ASIC does stand for something, though,
but I'm almost certain that this isn't
relevant in this particular case.
To : 999 (All)
From : L1J (Miroslaw Bobrowski)
Subject: Help please
I would greatly appreciate if someone
could supply me with a copy of the
article "3D Construction set" and of
the accompanying program listings.
This article was published in the
"A & B Computing" in June or in July
1987. Thank you in advance.
My address is as follows:
Miroslaw Bobrowski,
Waszyngtona 22-A m. 41,
15-274 Bialystok, POLAND.
To : 999 (All)
From : YJ2 (Andrew Snodgrass)
Subject: Designing sound envelopes
Some while back someone asked whether
there was a program available on the
BEEB with which you could design
envelopes on screen. On my wanderings
through back issues of the Micro User
I found such a program: "Island Logic's
Music System", which features an AMX
style user interface. 24.95 was the
price quoted in the issue (Micro User,
April 1985,p.78/79), but I doubt this
is still the case.
To : 999 (All)
From : YJ2 (Andrew Snodgrass)
Subject: Pengo cheat
This is for the H.Soft(1983) version of
Pengo by S.Harding. LOAD PENGO2 1800
THE FOLLOWING "&" VALUES ARE IN
HEXADECIMAL(HEX)!!
?&1F89=&no. of points for destroying
one ice cube.
?&22F5=&no. of lives.
e.g. for 4 lives ?&22F5=&04
For infinate lives:
?&3034=&EA:?&3035=&EA:?&3036=&EA
Finally once you have carried out your
chosen alterations use the following:
CALL &3F00
A very big thanks goes to M.T.Farnworth
(16C) for his article on cheats for
machine code games and Hac Man for his
similar articles.
To : 999 (All)
From : YJ2 (Andrew Snodgrass)
Subject: Reading disc catalogues from
programs
Can anyone give me a detailed account
of how to read files from the
*CATalogue and utilise the filenames,
thus found, using BASIC?
Thanks for the tip, but *E. doesn't
seem to work. It may be that I have a
duff ROM!?