From: D5B (Jon Ripley)
Subject: Program packing...
In the last couple of issues there has
been a lot of talk about program
compressors, a while ago - issue 47 I
think - Chris featured an article that
I had written all about this elusive
subject. Copies of this issue are
available from Chris at the usual
prices.
The article included information about
packing/compressing BASIC programs,
and also included information on good
programming techniques, but was only
included on the ADFS discs.
I believe that it was featured on a
later DFS issue 48 or 49 I think but
you will have to ask Chris to be sure.
It is well worth taking a look at.
Contents...
1) Remove spaces
2) Colons after repeats
3) Colons after DEF statements
4a) Semi-colons before TAB( statements
4b) Semi-colons before quote marks
5) REM statements
6) END and STOP at the end of a
program
7) Variables after NEXT statements
8) Nested FOR loops
9) GOTO in IF statements
10) THEN statements
11) Colons before and after ELSE
statements
12) Arrays
More in the relevant issue!
Cookie: If a listener nods his head
when you are explaining your program,
wake him up.
From: D5B (Jon Ripley)
Subject: Take it easy!
Over the last few issues a few
jovialities (jokes) have appeared
thanks to Chris and co. Some of these,
either just for fun or to help
stimulate message writing were taken a
bit seriously by some.
There are two instances that I can
list...
In issue 48 J.Davis submitted a
program to calculate the odds of
winning the game of Craps (a game of
mine that appeared in a previous
issue). I believe that some people may
have taken this too seriously.
Next was the discussion about the best
way to count seconds accurately; there
was no real fighting going on but still
some people complained, and what may
have been a good forum for debate was
abandoned.
Please take the advice of my picture,
'Smile, you'll enjoy life and live
longer!'.
Here's looking forward to more jokes
and heated debate in the future!
Cookie: Chinese saying: He who speak
with forked tongue, not need
chopsticks.
From: D5B (Jon Ripley)
Subject: Red & Blue Colour Messages!
Just a quick comment to all those
8BSers out there! The colours Blue and
Red cannot be seen properly (or even
at all) on some TV's and monitors.
(Especially the mono/b&w ones!)
Of course it doesn't mean that they
can't be used at all as they certainly
are useful colours but for large
portions of text they are unsuitable.
What do you think about this?
Do you have a mono monitor and have no
problem with these colours???
RR EEE DD BB L U U EEE
R R E D D + B B L U U E
R R EE D D +++ BB L U U EE
RR E D D + B B L U U E
R R EEE DD BB LLL UUU EEE
Send in your comments and reactions,
this is the comments and reactions
section after all!
Cookie: A bad compromise is better
than a good battle. -- Russian proverb