From: K6N (Brian Raw)
Subject: The Forth Dimension
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After doing a few things in 'C' on the
BBC I have become rather disheartened
with it due to all the compilation
necessary making program development
slow and painful. Forth on the other
hand being a lower level language, not
requiring compilation as such is much
easier to use once you have come to
terms with its own idiosyncrasies.
Anybody who has used Forth in the past
will remember the screen editor that
was part of it, this had to go!
The word n LOAD which would load
screen n into Forth has been altered
to LOAD filename which will load the
contents of a source file. This is one
of the beauties of Forth; if any of the
words do not behave quite just as you
would like, then you can redefine them
'If only people were like this'!
From: D5B (Jon Ripley)
Subject: Diary 1997
Brian Raw's Diary 1997 program in
issue 53 is very good, unless you have
a hard drive, well, actually it is
still just as good but you can't have
your diary on your hard drive.
The main reason for this is that my
disc identifier routine that he uses
(thanks for using it and thanks again
for putting in a REM to say so!) as
the name suggests it identifies discs
and not hard drives!
The simple solution would be to load
the program and type the following:
185dfs%=0
And resave the program. This disables
the disc checking routine and just
selects the current drive so you'd
better have your hard drive selected
when you run the program!
Yes folks it is a bit of a task for
the non techie out there to comprehend
all that and for that reason I have
adapted the program to create a
version just for hard drive users!
Just load it and use the star-command
option to select your hard drive and
go back to the diary menu and prepare
the disc.
The program creates a directory
$.Diary which contains all the diary
files.
Where you put the diary program is up
to you. It is probably a good idea to
save it in the Diary directory.
To do this, from the program select
the star-command option and type
the following commands followed by
Return.
BASIC
OLD
SAVE"$.Diary.Diary"
This will save the program under the
filename Diary in the Diary directory.
The diary is ready to use!
If you have a Library directory on
your hard drive (I shall assume if you
have it is called $.Library). If you
do not you can ignore the following
instructions.
If you would like to be able to use
the diary at the touch of a 'few'
buttons then type the following
commands followed by Return.
*BUILD $.Library.Diary
*BASIC
CHAIN"$.Diary.Diary"
Now press Escape.
You should now be able to use the
diary at any time simply by typing
*Diary.
From: 3WU (Fred Price)
Subject: Your Mother
Well friends here we go again as
another year has started, and a very
Happy New Year To You All. So what is
my topic to this time? Looking at
what I have, I decided that it should
be someone who is nearly always in our
minds at this as well as other times
of the year, and who is this person and
she is of course well known to you as
she is
As usual put the paper in your
printer and be prepared to read of
someone that will be close to your
heart when you set out to meet this
well loved and hard working.
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From: D6E (Richard Harker)
Program: Program Info (Madness Pic)
Here's another of my Madness scans. I
think that this is from one of their
albums. Enjoy it.
Richard Harker 1997
From: D6E (Richard Harker)
Program: Program Info (WIMP)
Ok, don't get too excited this isn't
an all-singing all-dancing multi-
threading operating system for the
Beeb.It's just a short RISC OS style
demo.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the cursors to move around. Shift
to accelerate, and space to select the
various icons on the icon bar:
Selecting the disk drive does a *CAT
Selecting the pen does a CLS
Selecting the palette changes the
colours
Selecting The Acorn quits
Hopefully someone will like it. Enjoy.
Richard Harker 1997
Function Keystrip Generators
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This collection of short programs
generates function keystrips for
various applications.
The list is added to every now and
then. Currently, it includes:
EDWKeys EDWORD
INTERKeys Inter-Word
MesgKeys 8-Bit Software Messaging
System
VIEWKeys View
TelKeys ABZ Teletext Editor
Run the program, and enter the number
of copies you want. They will then be
printed out on an EPSON-compatible
printer. Cut them out and place them
above your red function keys when using
the appropriate application.