Edited by C.J.Richardson.
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disc, 50p, return postage and
packing to:
To think that only a week or so back I
was becoming slightly worried by the
fact that no software had been
submitted. The three days leading up to
the deadline changed all of that.
There is a selection of software in
this issue that I personally think is
fantastic. No, you are wrong, none of
it is by me!
Thank you everyone. Not only for your
hard work in the articles and programs,
but also to those of you that have made
donations to or purchased items from
the group to boost the funds. Speaking
of which, we are about £25 in credit as
I speak.
Thank you Alan Blundell of BBC PD for
donating the FULL SET of BBC PD discs
in DFS format to 8BS. Thanks also for
sending a fair bit of business this
way. Thanks for the kind comments Alan,
but it's the members themselves that
make 8BS what it is!
Enough of the soppy stuff! Down to
business:
THE 8BS QUESTIONNAIRE IS TO BE FOUND
ON TBI-00, THE 8BS CATALOGUE/INFO DISC.
IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED ONE AND SENT
IT IN TO 8BS. YOU ARE INVITED TO DO SO!
The 8BS catalogue has grown by a huge
amount literally overnight.
The article you are reading now.
Info for programs that do not
contain their own documentation.
In several sections this time. One help
section. Two Advert files and two
general comments files.
From other members and myself.
Comments on programs.
A quick explanation of the NEWLY
UPDATED messaging system.
By Peter Davy.
By Peter Davy.
An article by Stuart Mason on how to
drive an IBM/PC monitor from a BBC by
a simple cable conversion.
Compiled on my new Z88 spreadsheet,
sorted as an experiment in sorting, and
stuck on here because I thought it
looked interesting.
Initialising rom images that you have
loaded in from disc.
By Steven Flintham.
By Stephan Richardson.
By: 15A
Use: Message Utility
Program name: SendMes
Associated program/file/s: SendMC
Language: BASIC+M/C QMesInf
Please read the info file. A further
update, please use this program for
future messaging. This time Steven has
added a facility to import plain text
into a message using CTRL+T.
The info file on this issue is a very
abridged one. For full info please read
the documentation on TBI-00.
By: 4MD (Graham Gallagher)
Program names: PERFECT and PRIME
Language: BASIC
Please read the program documentation
article for info from Graham about
these two Basic programs
By: L1M (Janny Looyenga)
Use: Mode 7 Screen Editor
Program name: DiaText Data NAME
Language: Basic
A mode 7 animation editor. Included
with the program is a demo screen
called NAME which is automatically
loaded on running the program.
I am afraid that documentation for this
program is a little sparse. See what
you can make of it.
From: K4D (Lorin Knight)
Programs: MAGIC3D, MODE4PR
Associated files: MEX-HAT, FURROWS
Use: Creating "magic" 3-D illusions
You may have seen the MAGIC EYE
books or posters in which a 3-D image
mysteriously appears from what, at
first sight, appears to be a random
pattern of coloured dots or shapes.
MAGIC3D enables simple black-and-white
pictures of this type to be produced
on a BBC computer.
See the program documentation article
for full info.
By: K2K (Peter Davy)
Use: Palindromic Numbers
Program name: Lappy
Language: Basic
Peter Davy responds to K3X's challenge
in the no.34 issue to write a program
to find palindromic numbers whose
squares are also palindromic.
Please read the program documentation
article for Peter Davy's full account.
By: 15A (Steven Flintham)
Program names: SentSlw Sentenc
Language: Basic
Please read the article by Steven
Flintham available from the main menu.
Please note that when testing the two
sentence generators out on the BBC, I
had to change the size of an array due
to memory limitations. The alterations
are as follows:
Both programs at line 180. The Array
Component$ was programmed by Steven as
(2000,3) this had to be changed to
(800,3) in SentEnc and (900,3) in
SentGen before the programs would run.
on my good ol' Beeb. The changes are
REMmed.
By: 2J3 (LAM C.J.Richardson)
Program name: Menread
Language: Basic
Just a bit of space left for this
popular utility.
To obtain a printout of the data from
the menu and locate the software on
this disc at a glance.
From: 3WU
Program name: CoalMan
Language: BASIC
Subject : A COMIC VERSE
The Coalman
Written By
Mrs Mary Wade
With the kind permission of Mrs M,Wade
of Bedlington a typical piece of
Northumberland & Geordie humour from
her, Geordie's Laugh and Cry Book,
So lads and lasses if you can center
and set your printer up and it's listed
as COALMAN and it's only a short one
this time. Also if you can print
Double Height it's very handy for
anyone who has sight problems.
Thanks for your comments on PPETE I got
him when I repaired some tapes for
a friend and there he was BONE DRY,
And not a Pea in sight.
PS Edible ones of course.
Fred
From: 6EE
Program name: Girl
Language: Data loaded by PICLOAD
A compressed picture digitised by Mick
Needham. I was hoping to put a digipic
of the show here, but plans often get
thwarted. This one did. C'est la vie.
From: J.De Boer
Program name: Loaded by MandRun
Right on the deadline what should fall
through the 8BS letter box but the very
thing that a number of people have been
looking for.
This is a three screen demo of a new
addition to the TBI pool, TBI-54.
TBI-54 is in DFS and ADFS format. It
features the main program plus source
code. The program does everything that
you could want it to. Zoom, Save to
continue later. Save screen. Choose
colours. A clock shows you how long the
program has been running.
This demo uses LDPIC to load in the
three compressed screens. A box is
drawn on the screen to show you where
the next screen is coming from.
Note the time at the top right of the
screen. This is the total time that the
screens took to build and save (11
minutes for ALL THREE!)
Please note that the program used to
produce these screens is not on this
issue. Order TBI-54 (ADFS or DFS)
From: Shawty of Digital Solutions.
Program name: Dreamscape Demo
Files: LandDem LandMus Scrn Final
TBI-55 is given over to Digital
Solutions software. So far in the
section is TBI-55-1 Dreamscape Demo and
TBI-55-2 Music tracker.
The sample of TBI-55-1 on this issue is
part of the dreamscape demo disc. Press
space to leave it and return to the
main menu. If you do not use CTRL+BREAK
after this demo has run, the 8BS
magazine articles will not run!