From: K2H (Ron Boyce)
Subject: CORRECTION (ISSUE 49)
The Gremlins also appear to have had
a go at my ELECTRICITY/GAS
CONSUMPTION PROGRAM in UTILITIES
MENU 2. ITEM H.
In the EleMenu Program the following
lines should be added:-
732 IF w%>9 AND w%<17 THEN PRINTTAB
(1,22)" Is that correct? Y/N ":A=
GET:PROCclear2
734 IF A=89 OR A=121 THEN PROCclear2:
GOTO 740
736 IF A=78 OR A=110 THEN PROCclear2:
GOTO720
EDITOR..... Corrected in V2 of 8BS 49.
From: D7Y (ANDREW MEDWORTH)
Subject: Banner Text Progs
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: D6F (JOHN CRANE)
Subject: MENU
Just a short comment.I note from
8BS`50 that Chris has made some
improvements to the menu system.I
don't know what you've done Chris,but
it's brilliant.I often read 8BS discs
through the BEEB emulator on my A3010
and I've had 1 or 2 difficulties.
8BS`49 caused most problems. Anyway
with the latest iss there's no
problems whatsoever. Spot on.
EDITOR. Jonathan Harston got his hands
on the menu system and cleared up a lot
of problems.
From: 0E7 (Fred Nevin)
Subject: LOTTERY EDITOR
Thank you once again Chris for casting
your SPELL over the LOTTERY program
It works like a CHARM
Pure MAGIC
From: D7Y (Andrew Medworth)
Subject: Teletext Editor (CJR-11)
Recently I bought Chris's TelEdit
disc, and I have some comments to make
on it.
Overall the package is very good,
with excellent editing facilities. I
particularly liked the pixel editing
mode, where you can press Q,W,A,S,Z,
or X to invert a single graphics
pixel. The small font system is also
very clever, although the fonts
themselves leave something to be
desired, being rather jaggy and
awkward. This can't be helped, of
course, because of the extremely low
graphics resolution of mode 7.
The large font system is OK. The
fonts are nice, but I wish their
filenames described them better, for
example there is a font larger than
XLARGE, obscurely named F2! This
problem can be easily solved by
renaming the fonts.
The result of the display file
creator is very impressive - very fast
scroller, and pressing SPACE returns
to the $ directory, and CHAINs a file
called MENU. Very clever.
Altogether a very worthwhile
program, well done. 9/10.
From: D7Y (Andrew Medworth)
Subject: PD Catalogue (TBI-00)
No serious 8BSser should be without
a catalogue of our enormous software
library, and this is it. It is very
good, but it could be improved.
The catalogue itself is not in the
scrolling article form often used by
8BS, but in another form. Z and X move
you through the file in different
directions a screenful at a time, a
very slow process. I presume this is
done for ease of editing, but wouldn't
it be better to have a TelEdit file of
the catalogue which could be edited by
Chris at his leisure, and from which
he can create scrolling files?
The search option is also very slow
- can't this be speeded up in some
way? It must be possible.
Very useful program despite the
deficiency in speed - score 7/10.
EDITOR. JGH has recently improved the
catalogue display. The catalogue is too
big to be turned into a *RUN file! Can
anyone help with the search? I have not
the time now to improve that.
From: Roy Dickens
Subject: This here I ntelligence
Q uotient wotsit.
In the issue no. 48 I was given a
lift up by 3PM DERRICK P-J (I am
walking ten feet tall). D P-J reckons
that, in a roundabout way, my IQ may
not be too low. I think he is right
because I recently found out about
BITS and BYTES. It is not a KITKAT
with a bit to break off and a byte to
eat. Also I now know that a
semiconductor is not a part-time bus
person. But I was fooled at first with
my new computer. I could not get the
foot pedal to work.It turned out to be
a thing that you push along the flat
surface that you work on. The surface
has now been extended by five feet
because I keep running out of room to
push the darn thing. The small disks
must be kept in their plastic cases
because they are a job to get out and
are too floppy when I tried them in
the drive.
So Derrick, I think you are right my
IQ rating is going up.
PS. I am very proud to let you all
know that I managed to complete a
jig-saw in the record time of six
months. Now that is good because it
said 2 to 4 years on the box!
I will join MENSA or what ever it is
called when they stop putting that
puzzle in their adverts.
From: D8F (Brian Jones)
Subject: Alien
Astronomers say that other Galaxies
exist where they would expect to find
Planets and Life. It is uncertain what
form this Life takes. I would favour
the humanoid form as this has proved
to be adaptable to all types of
activities and there is scope for
different variations of it
So there is a possibility that these
forms of Life have developed flying
craft to explore space which have to
travel at high speeds to cover large
distances (this is happening now on
Earth) and it is likely that these
craft are flying around Earth's sky.
It is fact that a small percentage of
sightings cannot be explained away by
natural or man made phenomena.
If they are out there, why have they
not made an open approach to the
people on Earth - perhaps there are
some kind of ethical reasons or after
watching people and Nations destroying
all forms of life on this Planet they
have decided to keep their secrets to
themselves. On the other hand, contact
may hve been made to the Governments
of this World that is kept secret, who
knows? - What do you think of the new
Space Shuttle - is that a natural step
from large Rockets or do you think
they have had some help from out there
The ALIEN article mentioned Time
Travel which does not seem to be
physically possible. Past events would
have to be consistently occuring for
Time Travellers to see them.
Although future events have yet to
happen they are being affected by our
actions in the present - but that is
not to say that these events have not
left some kind of impression - like a
tape recording - and that it may be
possible to develop a sixth sense to
read them - what do you think ?
The ALIEN article seemed to imply that
human beings were only flesh and blood.
My understanding of it is that human
beings are dual in nature i.e merged
with the physical body is an awareness
or consciousness that is not made of
physical material such as flesh and
blood etc. Without this merging there
can be no existing in the physical
world. They merge on birth and part on
death. The physical body returns to
it's basic elements and the awarenes
or concsiousness remains in space and
time somehow until such time that it
is reborn in another body. In a word
reincarnation
There is no conflict in my mind about
God versus Evolution. God created the
principles and laws that govern all
things and from these everything
evolved. For instance, games of all
kinds have rules and regulations but
what devlops or evolves during play
is something else. We do not see the
rules and regulations or the laws and
principles behind creation only the
result but they are there to be
discovered...........Bye