To : 4G7 and 999
From : 20G (Roy Dickens)
Thanks for the comments about the f KEY
utils program. I have, like you, also
put the INTERWORD ctrl/shift fkeys in
my !BOOT. Also in the !BOOT is a ding!
Instead of a beep! I use the idea by
Matthew Bennion in the VOL.7 NO.12
Micro User letters section. To change
the beep try
ENVELOPE 1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,-126,-2,0,-1,
126,80
*FX 211, 1
*FX 212, 0
*FX 213, 180
*FX 214, 1
You should then get a ding like a bell.
To : 0E7 and 999
From : 20G (Roy Dickens)
Subject: Tax and Insurance program
I have now updated the 'Tax&Ins'
Program Fred, from 92/93 to 93/94 not a
lot to change this time. (But what do
they have up their sleeve for the
autumn budget?! Seventeen and a half
percent on our fifty pence?). May-be
Chris will put the program in this
issue or when he has room.
To : 0E7 and 999
From : 20G (Fred Nevin)
Subject: Recycling
Yes Fred I did stay the course and read
your comments especially about
recycling. I remember the metal railing
(war effort) being taken, also from
parks. Before then we were locked out
by the park keeper at sunset. Once the
rails had gone the parks were very busy
after dusk! What about the recycling of
meal/food scraps? Lots of streets had a
dustbin known as a pig bin and the idea
was that we all put stuff in for the
poor pigs.
I say poor because there was so much
junk put in I'm sure it didn't do the
pigs any good. It didn't do the people
living near the stinking bin any good
either on a hot day!
To : 3SQ (Tim Parsons) and 999
From : 20G (Roy Dickens)
Congratulations Tim, your letter in the
recent ACORN USER stirring it up about
lack of Beeb stuff. But by their reply
they don't really want to know.
To : 999 (All)
From : 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: 128 Master
Acorn are discontinuing production of
the Master 128, when the last 2,000, to
complete existing orders, have been
produced the 128 will cease production.
We have it seems come to the end of an
era!
To : 999 (All)
From : 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: For sale
I have a lot of Beebug magazines I wish
to sell, they are:-
Vol.1 no.9, 10
Vol.2 no.2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10
Vol.3 no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Vol.4 no.1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
Vol.5 no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10
Vol.6 no.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Vol.7 no.1, 2:
All in good condition, 20p each plus
postage,
For Sale
Acornsoft Forth Rom, and book, 'Forth
on the BBC Microcomputer and Acorn
Electron by Richard de Grandis-Harrison
in perfect condition 10 for both, plus
postage.
For Sale
Acorn Prestel Adapter (modem), complete
with ROM, manual in full working order.
10 plus postage.
For Sale
Large collection of software, tapes,
50p each plus postage, comprise the
following:-
Palace of Magic, Quest, Hunchback,
Star Striker, 2002, Gideon's Gamble,
Frogger, Deathstar, Alien Destroyers,
World Geography, European Knowledge,
Galaforce, Colditz Adventure, Jetpac,
Knight Lore, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf,
Nightshade, Arkanoid, Wizadore, Theatre
Quiz, Science Fiction Quiz, Music Quiz,
Snapper, Spinx Adventure, Countdown to
Doom, Rocket Raid, Labyrinth, Revs,
Erik the Viking, The Pen and the Dark,
Combat Lynx, BBC Mastermind, BBC
Mastermind Quizmaster, Nightworld,
Lunar Rescue, Blagger, Grid Iron, Peter
Scott Trilogy, Fortress, Birdie
Barrage, Zalaga, Home Finance, Football
Manager, Firehawks, Planes, Pinball
Arcade, Gunsmoke, Castle Assault,
Demolator, Snorter, The Hacker, The
Horse Lord.
Compilations on tape, 1.50 each, plus
postage:-
The Gold Collection, BBC Bonanza, The
Complete BBC, Megaplay Vol. 1
Disk Software, 3 each plus postage:-
Revs, Thrust, Galaforce, Spycat,
Barbarian, Palace of Magic, Imogen,
W.A.R., Trivial Persuit, Starquake,
Psycastria.
ROMs for sale, 6 each plus postage:-
Caretaker and Toolkit.
153 Firth Park Road, Sheffield, S5 6WU.
To : 999 (All members)
From : 2J3
Subject: 5.25" discs for 27.5p each!
I have just purchased another quantity
of 5.25 inch discs DS DD. That's 300
now! With no reported problems.
If you want some, any quantity from 1
upwards, contact me.
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.
C.J.Richardson
17 Lambert Park Road
Hedon
Hull
HU12 8HF
To : 999 (All)
From : 2J3 (C.J.Richardson)
Subject: For sale
I have in my possession for a very
limited time:
"Chatterbox II" Speech Synthesis by
William Stuart systems limited. With
supporting software. It Plugs into the
User port and makes interesting noises.
Plus: "Big Ears" Speech recognition
system. Plugs into Chatterbox. Includes
supporting software.
These items are for sale as one unit
and include full instructions. I have
tested it out and can guarantee that it
works fine. Just £15.00 Plus p+p of
about £2.00p.
Contact me before the next issue
deadline when I shall return it to it's
present owner.
To : 999 (All)
From : 19F (Theo Gray)
Subject: Beeb Help
Just a couple of questions I would
like answered if anyone has the answers:
-How can sprites with >2 colours in be
defined?
-Every now and then, my telly pings at
me after about 1/2 hour or so of using
the computer. This happens in a very
random fashion, sometimes quickly, and
sometimes even corrupting the screen
or crashing the computer. Most of the
time this doesn't end up happening, but
it is annoying. Can any one help?
-I recently came into ownership of
"The Music System" from Island Logic,
and saw in an old advert that there was
a utility to transfer Music System files
to Basic. After phoning the company who
used to do this package, I found that
they only now do the system itself.
I was wondering if anyone owned the
utilities disk, and if so does the BASIC
utility allow tunes to be played on any
BBC without the Music System? Also, does
anyone know where I could get hold of
one?
To : 999 (All)
From : 19F (Theo Gray)
Subject: PC Help
I know this is a BBC magazine, but if
anyone knows about PC's, could you help
me with a few points:
-Could someone point me to a book on
programming with a PC (apart from just
batch files), if it possible to do
anything else with just MS-DOS?
-Is it possible to design your own
sprites for use in 'Program Manager'
in Microsoft Windows 3.0?
-I was recently thinking of upgrading
my memory, and I was wondering, after
looking at adverts whether the final no.
in the specification of memory SIMMS
(e.g. 1MB x 9 - 70, here it is 70) means
the accesing time in nanoseconds or
something else?
To: 999
From: 19F (Theo Gray)
Re: Still for Sale and there's more
than last issue, so hurry while
stocks last.
Why not just have a read through
these bargains which are just
waiting in a corner of my room
to go to a good home somewhere
in Britain? Why not even buy the
whole lot in one go? I don't
mind.
I am still offering the Watford
Electronics Printer ROM for £5 only
(It hurts me to just give it away
like this)
Phone (0525)220136 if you are interested
after 7:30pm weekdays. Also I have some
software for sale:
-On Tape-
- 2 Welcome tapes (yes I know, but
someone might want them) - 50p each
- Shapes (under 5's) - 50p
- Monsters )
- Missile Base )
- Meteors ) - 75p each
- Snapper )
- Bumble Bee )
- Missing Signs )
- Table Adventures )
- Cranky ) - £1 each
- Frankenstein 2000 )
- Palace of Magic (+Map) - £2
- Football Manager - £2
- Masters of the Universe Super
Adventure - £2
- Play it again Sam 2: Repton 3, Crazee
Rider, Galaforce, Codename:Droid - £2
- The Gold Collection: Jetpac, Knight
Lore, Night Shade, Sabre Wulf, Pirate
Adventure, Voodoo Castle, Strange
Odyssey, Buckaroo Banzai, Temple of
Terror - £3
- BBC Bonanza: Psycastria, Ultron,
Thunderstruck, Contraption, Wizzy's
Mansion, Last of the Free, Space Ranger
- £3
- ABC - This is very good word processor
which allows all the normal
features of a wordprocessor with
good extra graphics to help you
along the way (with ABC to view
file converter) - £3
-On Disc-
- Ziggy - £2.50
- Knitwear Designer - £4
- Mini Office II - £6
All are originals in original boxes
with instructions ( NOT incl. postage)
£30 for the lot (incl. postage)
-Books-
- 35 Educational Programs For the BBC
Micro - Ian Murray
- Writing Educational Programs for the
BBC and Electron: A Practical Guide
- Dave Carlos/ Tim Harrison
- Help Your Child: Computing, the first
step - Caroline Hughes
- Disk Systems for the BBC Micro - Ian
Sinclair (a very useful guide to disk
systems, carefully explaining them,
and the jargon associated)
- Micro's are Fun & Projects for
Programs from the ladybird computing
series
- 30 Hour BASIC: Standard Edition -
Clive Prigmore
To : 999 (All)
From : 4G7 (J. R. Hay)
Subject: A & B Computer Magazines
Further to my enquiry for copies of
certain mags. I have now received all
the copies up to June 1988, except for
Vol.1 Issue 2. Can anyone say when
the Mag. ceased publication?
To : 999 (All)
From : 4G7 (J. R. Hay.)
Subject: Inter-Base Programming.
A recent issue of Micro Mart carried an
ad. from Martin T. Pickering,
indicating that he had for sale a book
he had written on Inter-Base
programming. It transpires that the
book was about to be published but is
now being distributed on disc with
worked example programs at £10 (incl.
p & p.), although there are a limited
number of copies of the manual, printed
and bound (spiral) at a cost of £14.95.
In addition to this 250 page book Mr.
Pickering has a number of other
programs, connected with Inter-base and
Inter-word which are on rom format -
Inter-base - The XMenu Rom, Inter-Mail
- The Letter Manager Rom (ADFS only),
Select - The Rom Manager Rom, Wordwise
Mail - a facility for Wordwise Plus 1.4
or later. All enquiries should be
addressed to Martin T. Pickering,
10 Bollin Close, Sandbach, Cheshire,
CW11 9TZ. Telephone: (0270) 761928
(between 8pm & 9pm). Having printed out
the disc I found it full of interest
and the subject very clearly explained.
To : 999 (All)
From : 4G7 (J. R. Hay )
Subject: Aries B-12 Rom Board
Just to advise that I have now
succeeded in acquiring a used B-12 Rom
Board to complement my existing B-32
Shadow Ram Board. Grateful thanks to
those whom I know have been keeping an
open eye for me.