8 BIT SOFTWARE
From: 0E7 (Fred Nevin)
Program: WORLD MAP
By courtesy of K4D (Lorin Knight) and
TECHNICAL SOFTWARE
If this is a typical example of what
has been released into PUBLIC DOMAIN I
look forward to future issues with
great anticipation.
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1000 Card Game
L1J (M Bobrowski)
Another great effort very similar to
the 66 Card Game in issue 35 but I
think I prefer this one.
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From: K5K (David Robinson)
Program: Questionnaire
I found this generally easy to use and
of reasonable length.
I didn't understand the questions
about magazine content at first,
perhaps the wording could be made
clearer.
More space is needed for textual
answers.
Facility for comments would help. e.g.
I own a BBC B, so answered "1", but
don't use it as it is broken!
I had problems as I re-ran the program
to change one or two answers, and
afterwards found that some of the
other answers had disappeared! I
ended up entering everything again.
From: K5K (David Robinson)
Program: Messaging System
Fairly easy to use. I found that when
typing fast the occasional letter is
missed. Also when inserting
characters (CONTROL-f6) the last word
on a line starts to go off screen,
rather than wrapping onto the next
line.
i.e when I type this and ins ert a spac
To : 999 (Everyone)
From : 483 (Daniel Shimmin)
Re : Issue 37 hacker test
Chris will be disappointed to know that
I am way ahead of him on this, having
scored 1010010, and am thus a certified
Guru. The test is rather biased
(perhaps justifiably) towards those who
have used Econets and Archimedes a lot.
(After all, a hacker who only "hacks"
on computers that aren't connected to
any other computers isn't much of a
hacker). I have to admit to having used
the binary option on my calculator to
keep track of my score.
Editor...... Not in the least
disappointed Daniel. I am pleased to
see that you managed to do so well.
From: 15A (Steven Flintham)
Article: BBC faults article
This was very interesting and I think
it could be extremely useful in
prolonging the life of my BBC B.
To: 999 (all members)
From: K4R (Robin Morom)
Subject: DESTROYED REALITIES DISC
Presumably following up on my comments
in Issue 35 on various groups, David
Lowless asked Chris to send me a copy
of the DR1 disc to look at.
There were 28 files on the disc, 8 of
them text and documentation, in total
a little over 100k. They have
obviously tried to provide a mixture
of utilities, information and amusement
and seem to have suceeded rather well.
The cream of the disc must be the
PANTHEON game. I am not a games player
myself so I just sat in awe at the
quality of the graphics. There are
said to be 66 different screens and
they are certainly of superb detail.
No wonder it took two programmers over
nine months to produce them. And all
in 16k RAM!
Also on this disc: Mandelbrots, disc
backup, cheats, demos, etc.
There are some good ideas on the disc
and provide something of interest to
most. Price: `1.80 (for S/S disc) but
includes disc and postage.
SUGGESTION: Perhaps a file on disc
giving details of the group, etc?
Verdict: Well worth a look. I give it
7 out of 10. Of course, I have only
seen one disc. They may have done
even better recently.
DETAILS FROM:
David Lowless
82 Main Street
Pembroke
Dyfed
SA71 4HH
To: 999 (all members)
From: K2K (Peter Davy)
Subject: TBI 49 POSTER
(Lorin Knight's note in
REACTOR iss.37)
I was pleased to see Lorin's note as I
had just received a copy of the one
disk ADFS version of this program.
Having now put the program through
most of its paces I wholeheartedly
agree that it is excellent.
I don't mind admitting that I am the
world's worst at getting other
people's software to work. With this
one I had virtually no difficulty and
when I did stray the odd time, the
program was robust enough to guide me
back to the right action.
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Program: FIRE
I had a good laugh with this tale from
CHRIS ROBBINS (K4U) he reckons that it
is true. It was certainly a "I don't
belieeeeve it" for all those involved.
Send it to the TV Chris they could
make a good comedy sketch out of it!
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Program: MY EARLY DAYS. Part2
These interesting articles by ROBIN
MORON (K4R) are making us appreciate
how fast the advancement of computer
technology is rushing. I am looking
forward to part 3 Robin.
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Program: BONFIRE DEMO and WORLD MAP
Lovely flashing bonfire from LORIN
KNIGHT (K4D). I think I will sit
and look at the program on Nov.5th.
Also LORIN has let us have a nice and
clever program from Technical Software
I like the way it updates as the time
increases.
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Program: DOG MAZE
A nice and amusing little adventure
from SUE EEDLE (K4P) with the dog.
It is a pity that SUE failed to put
a up-front instruction page to let us
know that we could have used the fkeys
instead of having to type N,S,E and W
in full.
From: K2B (Colin Culpitt-Smith)
Program: 'FINDEM' & 'RESCUE' - Iss.37
The last issue had a couple of
excellent programs called 'Findem' &
'Rescue'. 'Findem' searches a disk for
deleted files after inputting a chosen
string, and then gives track and
sector info for use with either sector
editors, or the 'Rescue' program which
recovers the file for saving to
another disk. Both programs work
extremely effectively, and are very
simple to use. The only problem I
found, was in recovering a file which
had been saved over another file of
the same name. If the later file was
shorter than the earlier version, the
rescued file contained unwanted data
from the earlier version, but this was
easily edited out of the rescued file.
From: K2F (John Davis)
Program: Anagrams
It was nice to find more anagrams
lurking in the nooks and crannies of
Issue 37, from K6X and Roy Dickens. I
trust that our Editor has recovered
from the facial lacerations revealed
in K6X's clever anagram. Try to be
more careful with the razor, Chris...
BLAM!