To: 999 (all members)
From: K5A (Robin Moffatt)
Subject: Strange....
I got my Master 128 second hand, and
with it came some discs. Most of these
I just wiped, but one of them I
catalogued, and found something really
wierd!.
I catalogued drive :0 and it came up
blank. Then, I catalogued drive :2 and
to my suprise the following came up:
[½.AlCl3 (00) FM
Drive 2 Opton 0 (off)
Dir :2.$ Lib. :0.$
.CH4 + . ^02 =
.(OH)3 + .+ ^NaOH
.2. FeCl2 .aOH =
.NaOH = .02 =
£.lCl3 + +., 2,CH4
,.2,1,1,1 ,.20,9,17
1. NaCl,1 1.,21,32,
1.24,1,2 2. Fe(OH)
3. Al(OH) 3.,11,21,
A.,3,1,3 e.
X[½ F
H. + NaO H.CO2 +
l. = A l. + NaC
l. + £NaC 0. = Fe(
½. aCL
bH L ½.H2O
lM L
^. CO2 +
I then spooled the output from
cataloging the disc, and found when
I *TYPEd it, that only this had been
spooled:
>*dr.2
>*.
>*dr.0
>*spool
Does anyone have any ideas why it is
doing this. Have I uncovered some
amazing chemical formula, or has
someone just been messing around with
a disc editor. Why doesn't it show up
on a *SPOOL??????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????
EDITOR......... Looks to me like a
corrupted catalogue there.
To: 999 & K5L (John Witham)
From: 15A (Steven Flintham)
Subject: Olivetti JP101 printer
The following articles in The Micro
User may be of interest:
Making the most of your inkjet
printer, August 1986, Page 77
Crystal clear Mode 7 dumps - via Mode
4, October 1986, Page 77
The first shows how to use the basic
control codes and also includes a
simple BASIC screen dump for modes 0,
1, 2, 4 and 5. The second is an
article on how to dump Mode 7 screens,
but includes a version for the JP101 -
this may be useful in itself or as an
illustration of how to control the
printer.
In the meantime, the following
information taken from the first of the
two articles may be of use:
Command Codes
set 10 pitch 27,19
set 12 pitch 27,61
set 18 pitch 27,20
1/6" vertical spacing 27,71
1/8" vertical spacing 27,72
zoom (graphics only) 27,47
reverse (negative graphics) 27,45
On Off
double width 27,14 27,15
double height 27,39 27,37
normal underline 27,42,48 27,43
double underline 27,42,49 27,43
dotted underline 27,42,50 27,43
I hope this helps!
To: 999 (all members)
From: K3F (Jacquetta Morris)
Subject: WANTED - TYPESETTER AND
TAPE TO DISC TRANSFER
I have now managed to get the hang
of simple word processing with
Wordwise Plus, thanks to K2B, who
has kindly given me a lot of info.
on Epson codes for my new Panasonic
printer.
I am now trying to help my ten year
old son with his word processing.
His teacher has given him a copy of
Folio v.6, however, he would like to
have some small newspaper like
graphics to put in among his work and
print out. I understand Sherston
Software's "Typesetter" is quite
good. Would anyone have a copy of
this or anything similar, please?
I am also looking for a tape to disc
transfer programme. I have tried
Disc Executor, Clare's Replica and
Beebug, however, there are still some
tapes which I cannot copy.
Finally, a message from my son -
please keep the games going in your
next issue.!
To: 999 (all members)
From: K3H (ALBERT SCHOFIELD)
Subject: TAPE TO DISC ON THE BBC'B'
There are many types of tape to disc
utilities, some on disc, some on ROM.
Some are quite good but tend to be
fairly limited. For instance they
cannot cope with games that are loaded
as a continuous stream of data. This
is where the utilities which save the
whole of computer memory come into
their own. The best must be REPLAY as
this will transfer just about
everything but this requires quite a
bit of extra hardware and specially
formatted discs. However there is
another memory saver which only
requires a single bank of SWR and that
is SNAPSHOT which, I beleive is
available from 8-BIT. This is an
excellent tape to disc and disc to
disc utility. It will not cope with
everything but can transfer most. I
originally obtained it from
TELESOFTWARE and consists of three
files. One is a text file with the
instructions. When a program is saved
to disc it is saved as two files. One
is memory from zero to &1400, the
other is memory from &1400 upwards.
The command used to reload the saved
program is *RESTORE. I have found that
the best way to reload from disc is to
save the ROM image. Have this on a
disc with the two memory files. Then
all that is needed is a short loader
program something like the following:-
10*KEY10 *RESTORE|M
20?&FF34=0:*LOAD <FILENAME> 8000
30CALL!-4
This will load in the ROM image and
give the *RESTORE command. If the game
has a page of instructions it can be
saved on to the disc as normal and the
loader program incorporated into it. I
have found that SNAPSHOT can be useful
in another way. Sometimes a decoded
file or a file loaded in as a
continuous stream of data can be
retreived from the two memory files
and used independently of SNAPSHOT.
The ROM image takes up rather a lot of
space on disc but this can be reduced
to &500 and will still work. More next
month.
To: 999 (all members)
From: 2J3 For K.Locker
Subject: WANTED
Help!!! Wanted, a dump routine for a
Hewlett Packard Deskjet portable
printer and any advice on printing
graphics on HP printers. Any help here
would be appreciated greatly.
To: 999 (all members)
From: 4MD (Graham Gallagher)
Subject: PUZZLE SOLUTION
For those of you who had a go at the
maths/logic puzzle in ISSUE 35 the
ages of the three children are :
2 , 2 , and 9 years of age.
Now here comes the reasoning:
Firstly the pen and paper exercise to
list out the possible combinations of
ages which multiply together to equal
36. At the same time summate the
separate combinations to derive the
possible room numbers.
ie. 1x1x36=36 1+1+36=38
1x2x18=36 1+2+18=21
1x3x12=36 1+3+12=16
1x4x 9=36 1+4+ 9=14
2x2x 9=36 2+2+ 9=13
1x6x 6=36 1+6+ 6=13
2x3x 6=36 2+3+ 6=11
3x3x 4=36 3+3+ 4=10
Secondly, the logic exercise is to put
yourself in the place of the college
friend. He knows the number of his old
room and if it had been any of the
above numbers other than 13 then he
could have supplied ages for the three
children without a further clue. Since
he needed an extra clue this discounts
the six combinations NOT adding up
to 13.
Thirdly, the clue "The eldest is a
boy." permits the combination with 6
year old twins and the younger 1 year
old child to be discounted. Out of the
two combinations adding up to 13
only the one with 2 year old twins and
the older 9 year old child fits the
clue. The gender of the child is a bit
of a red herring ! ,but the eldest
had to be given a description of some
sort and it could hardly have been :
"The eldest is a brat."
Well done to those of you who arrived
at the right answer for the right
reasons. I'll be honest and admit that
it took a joint effort by me and my
son (mainly the latter) to solve this
puzzle in about 1.5 hours.
To: 999 & K3H (all members)
From: 4MD (Graham Gallagher)
Subject: MAGIC MUSHROOMS
I tried your tip of using a sector
editor ( ie. DISC DOCTOR ) to search
for "*TAPE" but unfortunately there
weren't any in the files for this
game. I did see quite a few "*FX"
commands and it also appears that the
program uses machine code, something
with which I am not familiar. If
someone could supply me with the
machine code equivalent (and/or *FX
command ?) of *TAPE and *DISC then I
might then be able to carry out the
necessary search/replace.
My two children have already saved a
few editted screens onto tape and I am
sure they would use the edit mode more
often if they could access the disc
drive. Besides which the tape recorder
is broken and they can no longer
save/load their editted screens. Any
help would be much appreciated.
To: 999 (all members)
From: 3WU (FRED PRICE)
Subject: Fonts
I am trying to get hold of some
different fonts for my programs I have
seen one in old english style but that
was on an Amiga so is it possible to
get some other fancy ones to use?
Fred
***************************************
To: 999 (all members)
From: 3WU (FRED PRICE)
Subject MAGSCAN DISC
With reference to the Magscan Disc
being converted to your own fileing
system BeeBug did put a little handbook
out telling you how to do it and as
long as you have View it is quite
simple to do i converted one to hold
and show where my music titles were and
considering I have 120 organists to
list plus titles which gives me about
200 + LPs took me a while but in the
end it was worth it and if anyone is
interested let me know and i will tell
you how i did it, And it will work
with one word only out of a title of
many words when it brings up the whole
title.
To: 999 (all members)
From: K2B (Colin Culpitt-Smith)
Subject: Hard drives
I'm wondering if there are any other
members beside me, that might be
interested in obtaining a hard drive
for their BBC at reasonable cost.
Thanks to an 8BS member who supplied
technical info, an electronics and
computer friend is now considering
adapting PC type drives for the BBC,
which could be offered complete and
ready to plug-in and go.
Alternatively, you could just buy the
interface and connecting leads, ready
to fit to the your own hard drive
(SCSI type). Costs will depend on how
many are interested, but a complete
set-up is likely to be well under
`100, perhaps about `60-70.
Any feedback will be appreciated via
8BS or on 0738-812186
To: 999 (all members)
From: K2B (Colin Culpitt-Smith)
Subject: ADFS menus
Does anyone have a copy of Beebug's
magazine disk for June & July '87
(vol's 6/2 & 6/3) that they would be
willing to share? I would like the
ADFS menu programs from each of these
issues, and would be happy to send a
disk and to cover all your costs. Many
thanks if you're able to help me. You
can reach me on 0738-812186 or via 8BS.
To: 999 (all members)
From: L1M (Janny Looyenga)
Subject: DIATEXT
Chris had already written that there
is not much information about this
program. I can't add very much more
except that ESCAPE always returns you
back to the menu. You can use all
normal TELETEXT keys. It was my idea
to load the data file NAME by the
program but I noticed that you can get
some trouble when making only 2
screens because the NAME file uses 3.
When you think this is not very handy
leave out line 35 but remember
you can't use the SHOW from the menu
then as nothing has loaded in yet.
There might be some confusion with the
LOAD/SAVE option. The example uses
*LOAD <NAME>. Of course you can use
any name you want to give to your DATA
file. Except NAME because this is used
by the program itself.
Don't be surprised that it will take
some time before you understand it
all: it took me some time too!
Sorry I can't explain how the 'copy a
part of a screen' works. It works well
when you use the right
coordinates... I haven't found them
yet.
To : 999 (Everyone)
From : 483 (Daniel Shimmin)
Re : RISC OS "Newer" option
Can anyone tell me what the
disadvantages of having this
permanently switched on might be?
(Apart from the fact that it doesn't
actually TELL you when it has refused
to copy something).
To : 999 (Everyone)
From : 483 (Daniel Shimmin)
Re : Decent Arch PD libraries?
Which Archimedes PD libraries have
people found the best, and are there
any that anyone thinks are definitely
worth avoiding (two-month delays or no
response at all or ridiculous charges
or tiny catalogues)? I am particularly
looking for libraries that have lower
charges if I supply my own disks,
and/or libraries that put more software
on 1.6Mb disks.
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