From : 2J3 (Chris Richardson.)
To : 999 (All Members.)
Subject : For Sale
All proceeds from the following adverts
go to the 8BS funds.
What an excellent way to boost the
funds! Just look at this lot:
Blank discs £3.40 for 10 including post
and packing.
Some questionnaires mention disc boxes,
so... while stocks last:
£1.30 extra for each ten discs (total
£4.70p) and they will be sent in a good
quality plastic disc box
Eprom programming service.
8BS has now secured a supply of eproms.
Send me your software on disc with
return postage and £2.50. I will
program an Eprom for you and return
it with your disc.
You may notice that I have extended the
programming service to the catalogue.
Any Roms in the PD library may be blown
onto Eprom. The price is £3.00 in the
catalogue as you do not supply return
postage.
I have a large quantity of 8K eproms.
They are new but have been kept loose
in a box. The legs are all slightly
bent but useable. Anyone wanting a
short program blowing onto one of these
chips may, as above, send return p+p
and the software on disc. The charge is
only £1.
Remember to tell me: 1. The Title of your rom
2. The copyright message
3. The * command/s to invoke the
program/s
4. Any text printed with *HELP
You can have a Basic or machine code
program held in rom. If there is room,
you can have more than one program
stored in the rom.
Software on disc: Pipeline £3.00
Play It Again Sam 6 (3.5" ADFS Disc)
£3.00
Barbarian £3.00
Tank Attack. Includes playing board and
plastic tanks etc. £5.00
Volcano £3.00
Galaforce £3.00
Repton Around The World in 40 Screens
£5.00
Paul Daniels Magic Show £4.00
Primary Power Package. A simple
introductory computer simulation of
electricity supply. Excellent
educational package consisting of an
A4 folder with teachers notes and large
colourful cards with info for kids plus
disc of SW. £8.00
Software on tape: All priced at £1.50p unless otherwise
noted. If you are buying more than one,
prices are negotiable (relative to
postage costs)
Spellbinder
Ravenskull (TWO)
Barbarian 2
Palace of Magic
Life of Repton
Nightshade BBC B only
Machine Code Tutor £5.50
Rocket Raid
Home Finance £3.00
Starship Command
Labyrinth
Unorthodox Engineers £3.50
Monopoly £2.00
BBC Welcome tape (Three)
Hopper
Darts
Wizadore
Fruit Machine
Time Man One Educational £2.00
Hunchback
Football Manager (TWO)
Micro Olympics
Map Rally. Educational £2.00
Crazee Rider
Edict. Electron Dbase and games
Last Ninja
Sphinx Adventure
Instant Recall Database £2.00
Graphito. Excellent Art package £6.00
Electron Desk Diary £2.00
737 Flight Simulator £3.00
Busicalc Spreadsheet (no manual) £3.00
Tiles. Fence. Primary Educational
Numbers £2.00
Giddy Game Show. Educational. Letters.
£2.00
Flags (of world test) Educational £2.00
Business games
Megaplay 1. 6 games: Galactic Patrol.
Vagas Jackpot. Fist. Eddie Kidd
Geoff Capes. Kane £3.00
Acornsoft View Printer Drivers £2.00
Typing Tutor + examples for Wordwise +
Elite! Complete with story and notes.£4
The computer Programme 1.75p
Animal Vegetable Mineral. (set up
question and answer files on any
subject. £5
Roms:
Micronet £6.00
Aid £6.00
Pascal £6.00
Wordwise Plus £15.00
No manuals with the above roms.
Mini Office 2 on rom board £25.00
Databeeb. Comms Rom. £13
Commstar £13
New and unused: Sleuth. The ultimate
debugging tool for the Basic
programmer. £16. BBC only.
The amazing Silicon Vision 3D Graphics
package. Complete with ROM, Five discs
and extensive manual. £60
Books:
BBC B User guide £7.00 (two)
Prestel System User Guide £1.80
The Book of Listings £1.80
Info for Acornsoft: Money Management,
Chess, Draughts and Reversi. 50p each.
Start programming with the Electron
£1.50
Me and my micro by P. Shreeve (for
newcomers) £1.80
Type in games for your BBC Micro
(Virgin) £1.80
The BBC Micro in education. E.Glesson.
£2.70
The Usborne guide to programming tricks
and skills (for kids) £2.80
Type in computer battle games. £1.50
Basic programming by J.Kemeny. £4.00
P-System Fortran 77 Reference
Manual. £7.00
A child's guide to the BBC Micro. John
Dewhirst. £3.00
36 Callenging games for the BBC Micro.
Tim D Rodgers and Chris Callander.
£5.00
Printouts: From the telesoft series:
OSBITS course (second hand) £2.00
(assembler info)
The following are formatted very nicely
and printed out on good quality paper
by laser. Complete with listings of the
accompanying software:
OSBITS £4.00
SWR notes £4.00
OPCODES course £8.00
Some function key strips are available.
They are laser printed on card.
Wordwise.
Interword.
Intersheet.
Interchart.
View.
Viewplot.
Blank.
Function key strips are 10p each.
Please add 20p to each order for
postage and packing.
Seikosha GP100A printer with manual.
Will require a lead. Fanfold paper only
as there is no friction feed on this
model. Makes a fair bit of noise, even
for a printer! £20 including postage.
All prices include postage and packing.
Superior Software is offering 20% off
all prices on the blue catalogue to 8BS
members. If you want a copy of the blue
catalogue, ask and I will send one with
your issue. Just write directly to
Superior Software and QUOTE YOUR USER
ID.
Disc labels for sale:
15p per sheet of 10. Includes write
protect tabs. This price does not take
account of postage. If you are ordering
labels only, you will have to include
19p extra for postage.
Just here was a large advert for items
from Micro-Aid. This advert also
appeared in issue 35. A number of
members ordered software from the
advert in issue 35. I sent off just one
order to Micro-aid on 13.6.94.
After hearing nothing from them by
6.7.94 I wrote again, saying that if I
did not hear from them by 14.7.94, I
would return cheques to people having
ordered software and remove the advert
from this issue. It is now 16.7.94 and
I am doing just that as I have not
heard a dicky bird from Micro-Aid.
Sorry about that folks, but what can
you do when folks don't want your
money?
Thanks to K5B for the help with the
phototransistors 8BS is now in full
control of kits for the electronics
articles (see TBI-47 if you are
interested, lightpens for £3, moisture
detector, low voltage detector, buzzer)
If you are waiting for a kit and have
not received it with this issue, please
contact 2J3 at 8BS HQ.
8BS is on the lookout for a twin double
sided 40/80 switchable 5.25" disc drive
with own PSU. Required as a spare for
when the present steam powered one pops
its clogs. Any offers out there?
Due to the Micro-Aid farce, there is
now room in this article for most of
the late messages:
To: 999 (all members)
From: 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: For sale
I still have the following tapes and
discs for sale:-
Draw, Biology, English, Maths 2, Music
Quiz, Science Fiction Quiz, The
Hobbit, Atic Atac, The Hacker, Estra,
World-Wise, Wordhang, Zany Cong
Junior, Colditz Adventure, Sea Lord,
Chess - Computer concepts, Cylon
Attack, Galaxy Wars, Killer Gorilla,
European Knowledge, Martian Attack,
MoonRaider, World Geography, Frenzy,
The Mine, Deathstar, Jet Power Jack,
Atack on Alpha Centauri, Gunsmoke,
Plankwalk, Spanish Tutor Lavel B,
Football Manager, Snapper (Elk), Stock
Car (Elk), Dunjunz, Galaforce, Spinx
Adventure, Erik the Viking, BBC
Mastermind, Zalaga, Palace of Magic,
Blagger, Quest, BBC Mastermind
Quizmastr, Knight Lore, English Civil
War, Revs, The Hourse Lord.
All above 25p each.
Tape Compilations:-
Star Wars Trilogy - Star Wars, Empire
Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
The Gold Collection - Jetpac,
Knightlore, Nightshade, Sabre Wulf,
Pirate Adventure, Voodoo Castle,
Strange Odyssey, Buckaroo Banzai,
Temple of Terror.
Megaplay Vol. 1 - Galactic Patrol, Way
of the Exploding Fist, Geoff Capes
Strongman, Vegas Jackpot, Eddie Kidd
Jump Challenge, Kane.
All compilations £1 each.
Disks:-
Tempest, FORTH, Elite, Barbarian,
Psycatria, Repton, Thrust, The
Sentinal, Galaforce, Imogen,
Starquake,Spycat, Head Coach v3.
All discs £3 each.
The prices do NOT include postage and
packing.
153 Firth Park Road, Sheffield, S5
6WU.
To: 999 (all members)
From: 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: Books for sale, as follows:-
Epson MX-80 type III printer manual, `2
The Advanced User Guide, `5.
BBC User Guide, `3.
Commstar User Guide, `2.
BBC Micro Wargaming, a bit tatty, `1.
The BASIC Cookbook, `1.50
Illustrating BASIC, `2.
Epson RX Printer manual, `3.
The prices do NOT include postage.
153 Firth Park Road, Sheffield, S5 6WU
To: 999 (all members)
From: 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: Modem help.
I have a Telemod 2 modem by OEL, does
anyone have a manual I could borrow or
any info on this modem, all expenses
will be paid.
153 Firth Park Road, Sheffield,
S5 6WU.
To: 999 (All members)
From: 6EE (Mick Needham)
Subject: For Sale
I have some Micro User and Acorn User
Magazines for sale, both cover the
same period Nov. 1985 to 1990, if any
one is interested please drop me a
line. 153 Firth Park Road, Sheffield,
S5 6WU.
To: 999 (all members)
From: K5P (Andrew Fay)
Subject: General Comments
In response to the query over EPROMs
I have just bought some from GREENWELD
and they all seem OK. For 10 8K second
hand EPROMS they charge `6.50, but
when mine turned up they were new. For
16K ones they charge `1.20 each.
As for I5A (Steve) about the
possibilty of snooping by reading a TV
screen remotely, it possible but I
wouldn't know where to start. What the
GPO does when it is looking to catch
license dodgers is to scan with two
directional aerials on the signal
generated by the TV itself. This also
enables them to tell what channel you
are watching. What happens in a TV as
in any Heterodyne receiver is that a
local frequency is generated and mixed
with that from the aerial. The two
interact and produce a beat frequency
which is the difference between the
two. The next step is to filter out
all but those in a narrow band. These
then go on to produce the signal. Some
of the locally produced signal leaks
up the aerial and also directly out of
the set allowing detection.
In a monitor life is not quite as
straightforward as the signal doesn't
need to be converted, but the
principle is similar. The computer
generates a signal and sends it to the
monitor which uses internal
oscillators to scan the signal over
the screen. I assume it is just a case
of tuning into the horizontal scanning
frequency and decode the on-off
signals to control the phosphors.
Andy Fay.
To: 999 (all members)
From: K5P (Andrew Fay)
Subject: PACE NIGHTINGALE OWNERS
I have just bought COMMSTAR from a
local computer shop sale and it came
with an Accessory Board for a PACE
Nightingale Modem which allows
Auto-Dial, Auto-Answer and baud rate
selection. It goes inside the modem
and connects to the Beeb via the user
port. I am offering this to anyone
interested for the price of postage,
so if you want to give a call, I'm on
Plymouth (0752) 673659 (Answerphone)
It comes with software for COMMSTAR
which give the extra features.
Andy Fay.
To: 999 (all members)
From: K5P (Andrew Fay)
Subject: Wanted for PACE COMMSTAR
As the new owner of COMMSTAR I read
the manual and was interested in the
terminal emulations capabilities, but
it doesn't say much. I would be
interested if anyone has any terminal
emulation files for COMMSTAR, in
particular DEC VT terminals (ANSI) and
Lier Siegler ADM3A. I would also like
to get my hands on the Appendix which
is supposed to describe the format and
internal vectors so that I could write
my own.
Call me on: Plymouth (0752) 673659
Andy Fay.
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