8 BIT SOFTWARE
Constructive comments on programs
published by 8BS are always welcome.
Here are a few:
From : 483
Program: Various
Screen Scanner Menu by John Ilsley
An excellent idea. A good improvement
would be to add facilities for *DIR ^,
*BACK, and directory changing for ADFS
users. DFS users would be able to
simply ignore these features. Also a
single key *EX and *FREE, *FREE2
facility, and perhaps a single key
toggle between ADFS and DFS.
Parachute Game
I feel criticism of this is little
unfair; after all it is based on one
of these LCD screen mini-game things.
The whole challenge of the thing is
learning to cope with the rather
strange method of movement that your
boat has, and with a bit of persistence
it is quite easy.
From : 0E7 (Fred Nevin)
Program: Various
Clear 35 by YJ2 (Carl Wheat) I was determined to win and I
eventually succeeded (I will not say
how long it took me) as at one time I
was becoming convinced it was
impossible to do so. I like the clean
presentation/graphics and speed/ease of
operation of the programme. A very good
piece of work.
4 from 27N. By John Ilsley I was unable to get programmes 1 and 3
(Dots and Lines) to work for some
unknown reason. Nothing happened when
the programmes were selected but there
was no trouble with programmes 2 and 4
which are quite interesting versions
which have appeared in various forms.
EDITOR... My fault that for not giving
instructions. Use the cursor
keys to draw patterns.
Tax Programme 93/94. By 20G (Roy Dickens) Thank you for the latest info on tax
etc as you promised. Pity it does not
work as a crystal ball and we could all
find out what is in store for us in
November when the new boy breaks his
duck. I will make a forecast that what
ever happens we will have to pay more.
From : 483 (Daniel Shimmin)
Program : Mick Needham's Tape Backup
Article
This seemed like a very good idea to
me. If Mick can do a comprehensive list
of which games can be transferred
successfully using which utilities and
which parameters (stating BBC B or BBC
Master in each case), then this would
be very helpful not only to anyone who
already has any tape-based games, but
also to anyone considering purchasing
games on tape second-hand; there seem
to be some real bargains out there if
there is a certainty of transferring
them.
If anyone else can provide any
information on transfer utilities and
the programs which they are able to
transfer, then please send it in.
From : 176 (E.J.Shuker)
Program : Issue 27 and 28
Electronics John Ilsley 27N I, like John, started into electronics
around 11 years old. (This was with
valves, transistors came later !) I
have not met so lucid and concise an
introduction as John has produced.
Menu Congratulations to Stephen Flintham, a
really excellent menu. Nice that it
retains all of the original.
Late submission DGS Recycling during wartime may well have
varied from town to town but where I
lived (in Essex) paper, cardboard,
potato and other vegetable peelings
(for pigswill) steel cans (there were
hardly any aluminium ones) were
recycled. Many glass bottles had a
deposit on them so they were used many
times over and at the disposal points
magnetic separators were used to get
iron and steel back to the furnaces.
The only reward was that those who kept
the pigs flourishing sometimes got a
little extra pork. On a personal basis,
many people fed food scraps to hens for
a supply of eggs and compost was used
on allotments which provided
vegetables. Cats and dogs had a main
diet of leftover food plus items such
as fish heads and offal.What a pity
that recycling had to be resurrected
instead of continuing.
8BS Catalogue Very well done. Updates either after 3
or 5 issues, would be fine, whichever
is most convenient for the compiler.
Issue 27
As I am late with this, OE7's comments
in Issue 28 are very close to my
thoughts.
To 999
From : 20G (Roy Dickens)
Subject: 8BS Statistics.
This is looking good. Its
smashing to see youngest age 15 and not
so young aged 78 sharing a wonderful
hobby and 8-Bit magazine. I hope all
members will complete the
questionnaire so that we can get to
know each other more.
From: 15A (Steven Flintham)
Program: Mandelbrot pictures (issue 28)
Sorry if I'm being a bit picky here,
especially if I'm wrong, but some of
the images looked as though they were
produced using a version of the
complex roots programs from Acorn User
some time in 1986 - or a program which
works in a similar way. The first image
in particular does not resemble any
Mandelbrots I have come across yet -
but I'm not sure.
BLAM!