From: K2F (John Davis)
Subject: Oops!
(There doesn't seem to be an "Oops!"
section in 8BS, so CCC will have to
do.)
If you had a go at "NOTaLOT" in
8BS-54, and did well at it, you may
have found that it claims to restrict
your kitty to `75, but doesn't. This
tends to establish a runaway "No Lose"
situation (though maybe you prefer
that...). (Like the casino which had
a sign saying "WE NEVER CLOSE", but
the 'C' went out.)
If you want to fix this, just add
line:
2225 IF`%>75 `%=75
That's 'pound sign'%, if it happens to
be printing as something strange here.
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Subject: NOTaLOT game in issue 54
John Davis's game NOTaLOT was liked
by me quite a lot. It was well thought
out and presented. I have had several
goes playing it and managed to win now
and again. It has been added to my
games disks collection.Thank you John.
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Subject: Jonathan Harston's comments
The f keys of the message system
that Jonathan mentioned (54) are a bit
different I agree. I have now got used
to them. But if you have changed the
normal fkey to shift fkey Jonathan,
does it mean that you do not use the
graphic fkeys or have you changed
these to ctrl fkeys? If you have also
changed these do you now ctrl/shift
fkeys to get the rest ie. contiguous
graphics, separated graphics etc.?
ReplyTo: Jonathan Harston & Brian Raw
From: D5B (Jon Ripley)
Subject: Diary 1997 Disc Checker
In response to Jonathan Harston's
comment about my disc format checker
being slow, it isn't entirely true.
The routine itself actually takes less
than a second to decide on the format
of a disc.
The function relies on DFS being
selected and uses the DFS read sector
routine. Of course this will fail if
the disc is ADFS.
The reason why the DFS read sector
routine is used is because the ADFS
read sector routine can take around a
minute when deciding that a disc is
DFS.
Gripes aside though, Jonathan says
that if your program pauses for any
reason it is always best to let the
user know what is (or isn't) happening!