I am writing this on 28th January 1995,
several days before the issue date of
issue 40. Issue 40 was the first to be
full on the deadline. Up to now, I had
allowed a bit of latitude with the
deadline and squeezed items in after
it.
As I write this, issue 41 is already
half full! Well done everyone, the
submissions are excellent. Keep it up.
Up to now, I have published everything
submitted to 8BS unless copyright has
been dubious. All material submitted to
8BS WILL be put onto issues. Although
in future I cannot guarantee that
everything submitted will get onto the
next issue.
Messages will take priority. To be
certain that your submissions make the
next issue, get them in early.
Everything is on a first come, first
served basis. As submissions arrive and
are finalised (sometimes it takes
several letters and phonecalls to get
a submission debugged/made suitable for
issue), they are put onto the next
issue disc, placed into the menu and a
brief description placed into the info
file.
All messages go straight onto the issue
disc too.
When the issue disc is full,
submissions are placed onto the
following issue.
Thanks to K3S for supplying 8BS with a
spare Master. In fact it has ended up
in constant use. There are now 2
Masters and one BBC in constant use and
a Master Compact in the loft at 8BS HQ.
Richard Chamberlain must have got his
fingers crossed when typing in his STD
code in the book loan article on issue
40. His phone number is: 01773 829543.
I shall be moving on to a 24 hour shift
rota, working 12 hour shifts in April
possibly. How this is going to affect
8BS I cannot tell until I have worked a
few shifts. I suspect that when I am at
work I will not have any time for 8BS
as my free time when I am at work will
amount to something like 2 hours a day.
The Spring Acorn User Show is to be
held in Harrogate on the 6th and 7th of
May in the International Centre. The
show opens at 0930 hrs. You are all
invited to attend. 8BS has been given
a stand at the show and we will be
there, eager to meet the rest of the
membership. If you want to come along
and help (and get in free!), please do
so.
I will need plenty of help at this show
as my wife Gill who came with me last
year cannot make it this year. So, if
you possibly can, PLEASE come along and
help! Technical expertise is not
essential, just a willingness to tell
people what 8BS has to offer.
If you can come along to help (even if
it is only a couple of hours, you are
welcome), please contact me as soon as
possible so that I can get the passes
organised. Remember that it will be
getting a bit late if you leave it
until the next 8BS issue to volunteer!
If you would like maps or info about
how to get there or where to park etc,
send an SAE to me and ask. Mick Needham
has sent me a disc of hand scanned
digitised maps of Harrogate. Send a DFS
disc and ask if you want them.
The Issue 42 deadline has been brought
forward 1 week from the originally
planned date to the 4th of May, the day
before I go across to Harrogate.
New to the pool this time:
BBC 151 added to the list
BBC 99 added to the list
TBI-67 BUG REMOVED from the Beebug
Printer driver and an example saved to
disc. MANY THANKS K2F who pointed this
out to me.
TBI-77-1 Beeb Developments 1 1D
TBI-77-2 Beeb Developments 2 1D
TBI-77-3 Beeb Developments 3 1D
TBI-78 GFX Fonts and Clipart 2D
TBI-79 DFS Utilities By Brian Raw 1D
FAC-00 Fast access demo disc 1D
512-2-6 Dabs Bonus Disc 800K DOS+
512-4 Various 512 utilities. DOS+
512-5 Various 512 utilities. DOS+
512-6 Genealogy. 360K IBM
512-7 Eaman. Adventure. 2 disc 360K IBM
512-8 Origami. DOS+ 800K
512-9 Cryptanalysis 360K IBM
512-10 Sprite Designer. 360K IBM
BUG-20 Printwise 1D
BUG-21 Masterfile II 1DA
BUG-22 View Spellchecker 2D
NOTE 512-6, 512-7 and 512-8 all
require a Basic such as GWBASIC to be
installed in your Master 512.