Editorial Summary For those of you not wishing to wade
through all the drivel in the
editorial, I have extracted the salient
points of what was said.
New discs in the pool since the last
issue:
8BS-00 Gazeteer 2D
TBI-55-3 Digital Solutions PD section
Music Tracker Utils and info. 1D
TBI-55-4 Digital Solutions PD Graphics
Kit. 1D
TBI-55-5 Digital Solutions PD Windows
Kit. 1D
TBI-55-6 Digital Solutions PD Utilities
and miscellaneous. 1D
TBI-64-1 Destroyed Realities 1. 1D
TBI-65-1 Mad Rabbit PD 24 Utilities. 1D
TBI-66 Amateur Radio. 2D
TBI-67 View Drivers. 1D
TBI-68 Screen Thief. 1D
TBI-69-1 Humour. A A to J
TBI-69-2 Humour. A L to Y
TBI-69-3 Humour. 2D A to D
TBI-69-4 Humour. 2D D to J
TBI-69-5 Humour. 2D L to P
TBI-69-6 Humour. 2D Q to Y
TBI-69-7 Humour. 1D P and Y
CJR-1-2-14 ADFS compilation
BBC-21 Games Adam Sandman A
BBC-35 ADFS
BBC-52 Starfleet MA
BBC-85 Aeronautical Dogfight II MA
BBC-114 Clip Art. 4D
BBC-152 Astrological Chart Drawing. 2D
GLM-14 GLM PD Utilities. 1D
TAU-87 Acorn User Compilation 1987. 2D
TAU-88 Acorn User Compilation 1988. 1D
Updates to: TBI-00
TBI-02
TBI-46-5 Peter Davy Disc.
TBI-54 Mandelbrot disc.
One member has asked me for an
explanation of Witchcraft, the puzzle
on the ADFS version of issue 37. The
idea is to make the grid on the left
look the same as the grid on the right
by pressing the keys QWEASDZXC.
Pressing a particular key causes a
certain pattern of tiles to toggle. The
letter Q for instance toggles QWAS. You
cannot toggle a letter if the
corresponding tile is red. That is
enough for now!
A file on side two of TAU-4, the
printer help disc is corrupted. It is
corrupted on all my copies of the disc,
so I assume it arrived at 8BS HQ
corrupted. Has anyone an intact copy of
The Acorn User Printer Help Disc?
The 8BS Magazine Database is now ready
for the streets 8BS-00 is now available
as 2D, a database which allows you to
search for articles and software from
any 8BS issue.
Sumvaders on TBI-2 was BBC only,
however, you can get it to work on a
Master. Two common compatibility
problems here, so they are worth a
mention:
1. The first is that PAGE should have
been set to &1900 before running the
program "Sumvade"
2. The sprite lookup table is in a
different place. You can tell this
problem when all the movement of the
game is on the top line of the screen
of your Master. Cure it with the
following program:
50accon=&FE34:?accon=&18
60FORJ%=0TO31:K%=J%*640:P%=(2*J%)+&C375
:[OPT2
70EQUB K% DIV 256:EQUB K% AND 255
80]:NEXT
Then chain your program. In the case of
Sumvaders it was:
100PAGE=&1900:CHAIN"SUMVADE"
I do not normally read the private
messages, but I spotted a note from one
member to another by chance. It
concerned filing systems. You can find
out the filing system that your machine
is currently using. Type this:
A%=0:Y%=0:A%=USR&FFDA
Then if A%=1, you are using TAPE. If
A%=4 DFS. If A%=8 ADFS. Simple when you
know.
BBC discs still required by 8BS:
26 30 42 34 44 51 65 76 98 99 103 115
122 131 138 139 149 150 151 158 171
If you have any of these, please send
copies to 8BS, I will swop it for
software of your choice.
Acorn User Show to be held at Harrogate
on 6th and 7th of May 1995. Put this in
to your diaries as 8BS is going to have
a stand there again. More in the next
few issues.