From: K6N (Brian Raw)
Subject: Large Font Text Editor
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As the title suggests, this program
takes key inputs and uses the current
font definitions as plot data to
produce large letters in a 8 x 14 grid
useful for title pages etc.
The font may be changed by redefining
the characters either using one of the
fonts provided (taken from BBC 109),
or using a font editor to design your
own, also to be found on BBC 109.
All this would be quite useless
without a print facility, the program
provided is for Epson and compatible
printers but has been kept separate
should you want a different program
for this purpose.
To: 999 (all members)
From: D7Y (ANDREW MEDWORTH)
Subject: Banner Text Printer
This program originally appeared in
Beebug Vol 9 no 2 with several
subsequent amendments. It is a useful
utility program to enable you to print
text of any size DOWN the page on
continuous paper, thus creating a
banner or headline for a display. The
letters may be outline or filled, and
you can choose the height and width
and then enter the string. If you want
to print more than one line on the
page, you have to rewind the paper
between lines and use the margin
setting; 1 sets the text at the bottom
of the page and 70 sets it at the top.
The printer needs to be set to "no
linefeeds". Due to memory limitations,
the data for capital letters and
punctuation marks is on Banner1 and
for lower case and numbers is on
Banner3; you can change between them
easily by rebooting the menu (BANNER),
and the
printer carries on printing where it
left off provided you enter the same
parameters. I think that the
smoothness of the outlines of the
letters is excellent and gives a
pleasing result.
The original program was written by
David James.
N.B. If using these progs on a BBC B,
they will need to relocate themselves
otherwise they will not run. Just
delete line 750 in both BANNER1 and
BANNER3.
From: D6E (Richard Harker)
Subject: Liner (instructions)
This is fairly straight forward, just
move up and down, to try and avoid the
'yellow bits'
Alternatively you can have a real
story to the game.
You have been sent on an intergalactic
mining mission, with a group of other
space craft. Somehow, you lost the
rest of your team. The only way home
is to travel through the 'Caves of
Doom' in the hope that you will reach
the earth... maybe in a few million
light years.
Your ship is equipped with 4 Mark IV
mining lasers, which can blast away
parts of the caves, although your ship
takes 60 microseconds to recharge,
before it can fire another laser.
Good luck commander.
From: 2J3 (C.J.Richardson.)
Subject: ASCII to Interword Conversion.
I was converting a couple of hundred
short Interword files to PC format for
someone. A bit of a boring task. To
make the job more easy, I renamed all
the files on the 6 discs involved to
sequential numbers and wrote this
program to convert the Interword to
plain ASCII text. I have removed the
loop that enabled mass conversion and
inserted a routine to allow you to
select individual files to convert.
From: K8J (C.PIKE)
Subject: PIK-O-GRAM
Hi, here I am again, this time with a
word puzzle. You of course will wonder
why a technical group should be
harrassed in this way. O.K. so I will
come clean: it's all because of DAN,
that's not his name; but my acronym
which describes him to a T. Damned
Aggravating Nipper. He is more computer
literate than I, pokes his nose into
my Telegraph crossword, and all in all
is ever ready to point out any error
that might slip through, no matter
what the subject. How come, that with
eight times as many years experience
to call on, I am always the loser in
the one upmanship stakes. On occasion
I can see how one could embrace the
thought of infanticide....with glee!!
Coming clean has caused me to deviate
from the gen regarding the word puz.
There are a number of words within the
square, entered up, down, and
diagonally, some are even backwards.
Crossword type clues to 25 are listed
to assist or aggravate. The original
was to keep DAN off my back for a
while, and what do you think he was
doing...hunting for words then finding
a clue to fit.
The latest is that if I produce
another square, he will be using Kate
Crennell's 'Word Square Solver' for a
quick response. I give up the mighty
struggle, and should you also be
inflicted with a DAN, why not print
the square and use it as a form of
meditation in the smallest reading
room! By the way, for those with only
a limited time, or alternatively a low
concentration threshold,the answers
next time: bye for now Cyril.
From: D5B (Jon Ripley)
Subject: Secret Maze Pt.2
This is the sequel to my Secret Maze
adventure that appeared in a previous
issue and is the next in the
continuing series of adventures.
This game was also made using my
mini-adventure creator and took me
just 10 minutes from the idea to the
finished product. I hope it provides
much enjoyment!
Once you had completed the last maze,
after only a few minutes respite you
were transported into another maze.
This time there is no exit to find.
To complete the game you must traverse
the maze collecting the many treasures
that lie in your path.
In future, adventures will be appearing
on the disc magazine of BBC User Group.
From: 3WU (Fred Price)
Subject: Geordie Broon
Well friends here is another one from
that lad from the wild lands of
Backworth that little suburb that
exists in Newcastle.
Yes our friend Geordie has been
dreaming this time, so have a look and
find out what it's about in:
GBDREAM
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